Crossword-Solution: ABRIDGED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Abridged | imp. & p. p. | of Abridge |
We have 21 clues for the answer “ABRIDGED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like many Reader's Digest articles | 1 answer |
| Shortened, and what the letters removed from eight novels in this puzzle spell out | 1 answer |
| Shortened, and the letters missing from the starred answers | 1 answer |
| Not full-length | 1 answer |
| Like some audio books | 1 answer |
| Like pocket dictionaries | 1 answer |
| Like many paperback dictionaries | 1 answer |
| Cut in the sack covering makeshift grid | 1 answer |
| Condensed book | 1 answer |
| Condensed (as text) | 1 answer |
| Like some dictionaries | 2 answers |
| Missing parts | 2 answers |
| Potted | 7 answers |
| shortened | 11 answers |
| Not all there | 20 answers |
| Concise | 27 answers |
| Cut (down) | 37 answers |
| CONDENSED ___ | 39 answers |
| Incomplete | 76 answers |
| Brief | 83 answers |
| CUT ___ | 133 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ABRIDGED (5)
The act abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses.
Then, in 1573, an abridged version was printed that omitted Chapters four and five, along with other items displeasing to a watchful Inquisition; later additional episodes were suppressed.
High play was always the etiquette at court, but the sittings became less frequent and were abridged.
When time and leave of judicious friends shall put them into their hands, they will discover in such of them as are here abridged (not to mention almost as many more, which are left untouched) many surprising events and turns of fortune, which for their infinite variety could not be contained in this little book, besides a world of sprightly and cheerful characters, both men and women, the humour of which it was feared would be lost if it were attempted to reduce the length of them.
Meanwhile here is the abridged record of another mystical or semi‐mystical experience, in a mind evidently framed by nature for ardent piety.
Quotes with ABRIDGED (3)
A person who speaks like a book is exceedingly boring to listen to; sometimes, however, it is not inappropriate to talk in that way. For a book has the remarkable property that it can be interpreted any way you wish. If one talks like a book one’s conversation acquires this property too. I kept quite soberly to the usual formulas. She was surprised, as I’d expected; that can’t be denied. To describe to myself how she looked is difficult. She seemed multifaceted; yes just abou…
Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
In any first-class work of art, you can find passages that in themselves are extremely boring, but try to cut them out, as they are in an abridged edition, and you lose the life of the work. Don't think that art that is alive can remain on the same level of interest throughout — and the same is true of life.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1973–2023).