0 present participle of abbreviate --
1 to make a word or phrase shorter by using only the first letters of each word: --
"Chief Executive Officer" is abbreviated as "CEO".
"Daniel" is often abbreviated to "Dan".
With little room in the margins, instructors use more underlining, coding, and abbreviating.
There is of course difficulty in abbreviating a presentation of work which covers more than 700 papers and 25 books.
There are other abbreviating devices, including capitalisation, and the use of punctuation marks to denote combinations of sounds.
We are abbreviating everything now.
That is why we say that far from the debates so far being a reason for abbreviating the discussions, they are a reason for extending it.
I was abbreviating my remarks.
I am abbreviating the procedure somewhat.
We are now abbreviating that period to three years, and therefore we are greatly assisting the executors of the wife's estate.
