abridge Synonyms

abbreviate reduce cut foreshorten shorten contract synopsize shrink summarize telescope shortening retrench restrict recapitulate prune pare narrow minify lower telescoped trim encapsulate strike off cut short tighten up pare down blue-pencil boil down recap cut down summate summarise sum-up cut back bowdlerise truncate limit lessen curtail crop condense condensing concentrate compress compact clip circumscribe censor apothegmatize abstracted