abbreviated

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
abbreviated
    adj 1: (of clothing) very short; "an abbreviated swimsuit"; "a
           brief bikini" [syn: {abbreviated}, {brief}]
    2: cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her
       shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an
       unsatisfactory truncated conversation" [syn: {abbreviated},
       {shortened}, {truncated}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Abbreviate \Ab*bre"vi*ate\ ([a^]b*br[=e]"v[i^]*[=a]t), v. t.
   [imp. & p. p. {Abbreviated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Abbreviating}.]
   [L. abbreviatus, p. p. of abbreviare; ad + breviare to
   shorten, fr. brevis short. See {Abridge}.]
   1. To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by
      contraction or omission, especially of words written or
      spoken.
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            It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting,
            another by cutting off.               --Bacon.
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   2. (Math.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Abbreviated \Ab*bre"vi*a`ted\ ([a^]b*br[=e]"v[i^]*[=a]`t[e^]d),
   a.
   Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "abbreviated":
      Spartan, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed, brief,
      brusque, capsule, capsulized, clipped, close, compact, compendious,
      compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, cropped, curt,
      curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic,
      epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, pithy, pointed,
      pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reserved, sententious, shaved,
      sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub,
      snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight,
      to the point, trimmed, truncated

    

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