The word "abridged" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe something that has been shortened or summarized. For example: "The abridged version of the novel was much easier to read than the original."
(Abridged from the Liverpool Mercury).One of the greatest, if not the greatest public demonstration ever made in Liverpool in favour of free-trade principles, was made on the evening of Wednesday last, on the occasion of the regular monthly meeting of the Liverpool Anti-Monopoly Association.
Instead his contemporaneous typewritten journals have now been published, abridged but not expurgated.Though an imperfect substitute for a reflective integrated work, the "Journals" are an indispensable source for historians and irresistibly readable.
Speedy, abridged communication and the influence of a younger generation has created a pandemic of text speak, acronyms and lazy grammar.
The 15th amendment guarantees that "[t]he right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude", and it grants Congress the "power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation".
I think he knows this, and is revising his campaign accordingly.Here is an abridged extract from the column The danger for the president lies among wavering voters who think of 2008 with a pang of disappointment.
THESE are abridged interviews with two of the three men who were the most senior managers at Fukushima Dai-ichi on March 11th , 2011
Hard-headed Israelis and Palestinians, still lurching almost hourly from incident to bloody incident horrors this week include the wounding of three women in labour, two Palestinian and one Israeli, trying to make their separate ways to hospital wonder how that timespan can somehow be abridged.
Even though she is, in effect, his stepmother, he fathers a child with her.Murasaki's language was already archaic and impenetrable a century after it was written, so the Japanese have been reading annotated, abridged, simplified and illustrated versions of the book since as early as the 12th century.
However, the publishers have surreptitiously abridged the Spanish original.
Section 1 The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
February 6 , 1811Ascot or Bishop Auckland, England January 18 , 1898England Henry George Liddell, (born Feb. 6, 1811, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, Eng. died Jan . 18 , 1898Ascot, Berkshire) British lexicographer and co-editor of the standard Greek English Lexicon (1843; 8th ed., 1897; revised by H.S. Jones and others, 1940; abridged, 1957; intermediate, 1959).
