ABRIDGE

Abridge

Abridge is a village in Essex, England. It is on the River Roding, southwest of the county town of Chelmsford. The village is in the district of Epping Forest and in the parliamentary constituency of Brentwood & Ongar. It is part of the civil parish of Lambourne and is served by Lambourne Parish Council.

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abridge

Verb

  1. To deprive; to cut off.
  2. To debar from. <ref name=SOED/>
  3. To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent. <ref name=SOED/>
  4. To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary. . <ref name=SOED/>
  5. Cut short; truncate. <ref name=SOED/>
  6. To curtail. <ref name=SOED/>
    He had his rights abridged by the crooked sherrif.


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