abbreviate

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Verb[change]

Plain form
abbreviate

Third-person singular
abbreviates

Past tense
abbreviateed

Past participle
abbreviateed

Present participle
abbreviateing

  1. If you abbreviate something, especially a word or a piece of writing, you make it shorter.
    He abbreviated his first name to Alec.
    It was an abbreviated document without detailed proposals.