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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 abridged
 (adj.)省略的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 A·bridge v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abridged p. pr. & vb. n. Abridging.]
 1. To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights. “The bridegroom . . . abridged his visit.”
    She retired herself to Sebaste, and abridged her train from state to necessity.   --Fuller.
 2. To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary.
 3. To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by from; as, to abridge one of his rights.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 abridged
      adj : (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting; "an
            abridged version" [ant: unabridged]