Meanings (ES + gloss)
privar
To deprive; to cut off.
abreviar • compendiar • condensar
To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.
She retired her self to Sebaste, and abridged her train from State to necessity.
The bridegroom, perceiving his condition, abridged the visit […]
abreviar • resumir
To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense.
It was still necessary for the man who had been formerly saluted by the highest authority as dictator of the English language to supply his wants by constant toil. He abridged his…
Such an episode in the Island's grand naval story her naval historians naturally abridge; one of them (G.P.R. James) candidly acknowledging that fain would he pass it over did not…