abridge

Other forms of abridge

past tense

abridged·

present participle

abridging·

third person

abridges·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about abridge

What does abridge mean?

abridge means "reduce in scope while retaining essential elements". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in abridge?

abridge has 2 syllables: a-bridge. The stress falls on "bridge". In IPA it is /əˈbɹɪdʒ/.

What is another word for abridge?

Close synonyms include foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is abridge a common word?

abridge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with abridge?

3 words rhyme with abridge. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.