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abbreviate

Synonyms

Verb

1. reduce

2. abridge

3. foreshorten, shorten, cut, contract, reduce, decrease, lessen, minify

Usage
Ask Dr. Universe: Abbreviations sometimes show how words have changed over time - The Spokesman-Review
Josef Newgarden fastest in abbreviated practice - WRTV
Preseason Recap: Sporting KC falls 1-0 to Charlotte FC in abbreviated scrimmage - Sporting Kansas City
Court rules bankruptcy abbreviation not a credit reporting error under the FCRA - JD Supra
OMG, what does that mean? Here are Virginia’s most searched text abbreviation - WRIC ABC 8News
The College Football Playoff Would Like You to Abbreviate Its Name - Sports Illustrated
‘OTP:’ Here’s what Florida’s most searched abbreviation actually means - WKMG
Abbreviated Breast MRI Protocols to Monitor Response to Chemotherapy - RSNA Journals
‘SMH’, ‘OTP’: The most-searched text abbreviations in Connecticut - WTNH.com
Abbreviated Azacitidine Regimen Improves Outcomes in Lower-Risk MDS - The ASCO Post
10 Social Media Abbreviations That Stump People the Most - Mental Floss
The Proliferation of Abbreviations in Mexican Spanish - Mexperience
Google Shopping Promotions Support Subscription Fees & Abbreviations - Search Engine Roundtable
US envoy cuts Lebanon trip short amid protests, outrage over press comments - Al Jazeera
9@9: The story behind comedian Gary Gulman’s classic breakdown of the documentary on state abbreviations - WGN-TV
What does DNI mean at the Olympics? A breakdown of the scoring abbreviations - NBC 5 Chicago
Abbreviated breast MRI after chemotherapy comparable to full protocol - AuntMinnie
SYBAU, WYLL and PMO: what do the latest teen text abbreviations actually mean? - The Guardian
FHU changes 90th Annual Bible Lectureship to abbreviated Spiritual Growth Workshop due to inclement weather - Talk-N West TN
Wait… what does THIS mean? 😂 - 97.3 The Dawg
A first-year guide: The world of U.Va. abbreviations - The Cavalier Daily
Abbreviated - Johns Hopkins University
What is AIN at the Winter Olympics? The abbreviation actually doesn't represent a country - NBC 5 Chicago
Birdsong patterns appear to follow Zipf's law of abbreviation—just like human speech - Phys.org
Les Arts Florissants play an abbreviated Christmas Oratorio in Paris - Bachtrack
Dmitriev called the NYT decoding of the NATO abbreviation shameful - EADaily
Fantasy Football for Beginners: Abbreviations & Terms to Know - PrizePicks
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Gambling to Armageddon - Daily Kos
Veterinary Abbreviations & Acronyms: 10 Vet-Verified Common Terms Explained - Catster
All Human Languages Mysteriously Obey Zipf's Law Of Abbreviation. It Applies To Bird Songs Too. - IFLScience
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The writing is on the wall and reckoning is coming soon - Daily Kos
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: This is FAFO week for Republicans - Daily Kos
X-59 second flight abbreviated due to technical issue - The Aviation Geek Club
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: “Don’t start none, won’t be none…” - Daily Kos
Autopsy Of An Abbreviated Retail Romance: Why Target And Ulta Beauty Split - Beauty Independent
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: When Things Fall Apart, continued - Daily Kos
Texting abbreviations come with a hidden social penalty, according to new psychology research - PsyPost
FYI: People Don't Like When You Abbreviate Texts - Time Magazine
Emojis and abbreviations are fuelling generational workplace misunderstandings - The HR Director
A CT pastor has fed thousands at holidays. Why she fears the meals won’t be possible this year. - Hartford Courant
EMA - New legislation on abbreviations, pictograms and small packaging - European Commission
Abbreviated MRI is superior to whole-breast ultrasound for detection of cancer in dense breasts - 2 Minute Medicine
Apparently, ESPN isn't using the correct acronym for SFA on its broadcasts - Chron
2025 USAF & USSF Almanac: Glossary of Acronyms & Abbreviations - Air & Space Forces Magazine
ISO 1043-1:2011—Abbreviated Terms for Plastics - American National Standards Institute - ANSI
Where the states’ postal abbreviations came from - WYTV
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The very first time - Daily Kos
Texting abbreviations makes senders seem insincere, study finds - American Psychological Association (APA)
Abbreviated MRI and Contrast-Enhanced Mammography Outperform ABUS in Women With Dense Breasts, Negative Mammogram - Consultant360
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Chickens coming home to roost - Daily Kos
To abbreviate your company name, or not to. That is the branding question - B2B Marketing
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Congratulations, Virginia—and to L Louise Lucas and Hakeem Jeffries - Daily Kos
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The aftermath isn’t aftermath-ing…in some respects - Daily Kos
Why do British people love to abbreviate things? An investy g - Dazed
Deciphering clinical abbreviations with a privacy protecting machine learning system - Nature
These Are Some Of The Most Basic Medical Abbreviations — Can You Identify At Least 6 Of Them? - BuzzFeed
VUMC cracks down on problem- prone medical abbreviations - Vanderbilt Health News
Don’t abbreviate 2020 when writing out the date - KRON4
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: When it rains, it pours - Daily Kos
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Jack Smith reminds America and the world about January 6th - Daily Kos
Abbreviations and Acronyms to Know For Your First Day at SUU - Southern Utah University
Multireader Diagnostic Accuracy of Abbreviated Breast MRI for Screening Women with Extremely Dense Breasts - RSNA Journals
St. Patty’s Day vs. St. Paddy’s Day: Which Is Correct? - Mental Floss
Idaho ranks last in understanding texting abbreviations - BYU-Idaho
Abbreviated Versus Standard Dual Antiplatelet Therapy Times After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients With High Bleeding Risk With Acute Coronary Syndrome: Insights From the SWEDEHEART Registry - American Heart Association Journals
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The President of the United States is an unhinged lunatic - Daily Kos
Don’t abbreviate 2020 on checks and documents. It could leave you in the lurch. - OregonLive.com
Do Not Abbreviate The Year 2020 As “20” When Writing The Date: Use “January 3, 2020,” Not “1/3/20” - Joseph Steinberg
Short film screenwriting: a high-wire act of abbreviation - Cornell Chronicle
Be Careful of Using Drug Abbreviations - Pharmacy Times
If you use these common text abbreviations, there's a big downside you could regret: APA study - New York Post
Nursing's Alphabet Soup: Nursing Acronyms Explained - Southern New Hampshire University
Here's why you shouldn't abbreviate 2020 when writing the date - Cincinnati Enquirer
Optimizing an Abbreviated MRI Protocol for Women with Dense Breasts - RSNA Journals
Abbreviated MRI Scans in Detecting Breast Cancer for Women With Dense Breasts - The ASCO Post
Don’t abbreviate 2020. It’s for your own good - CNN
Abbreviations, acronyms and 57ARS - Times Record News
A deep database of medical abbreviations and acronyms for natural language processing - Nature
MQ-9A Abbreviated Accident Investigation Report Released - acc.af.mil
ISMP Updates List of Error-Prone Abbreviations, Symbols, and Dose Designations - ECRI
Here's What Toyota's RAV4 Abbreviation Stands For - SlashGear
Why Is Pounds Abbreviated as “lbs”? - Reader's Digest
Abbreviated MRI and Contrast-Enhanced Mammography Provide Fourfold Higher Cancer Detection than Breast Ultrasound - diagnosticimaging.com
Don't abbreviate 2020⁠ on important documents. It could leave you vulnerable to fraud - CBS News
Why You Should Not Abbreviate 2020 When Signing Legal Documents - Newsweek
Abbreviated - Johns Hopkins University
Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emission Savings Associated with Implementation of an Abbreviated Cardiac MRI ProtocolRadiology - RSNA Journals
Residential Undergraduate Education and the Great Abbreviation - Public Discourse
The 20 Most-Googled Text Abbreviations - Mental Floss
Call MoHi by its Name: Abbreviations as a harbinger of gentrification - Columbia Daily Spectator
Abbreviated MRI Supports Supplemental Dense Breast Screening - Imaging Technology News
Technical Glitches Force Kingston Selectmen to Abbreviate Meeting - South Shore News
Why you shouldn’t abbreviate 2020 on checks and legal documents - WHIO TV
2020 scam? Police warn public not to abbreviate year - ABC13 Houston
2020 scam? Police in Maine warn public not to abbreviate year - ABC7 Los Angeles
Grammar Guy: Battle of the Latin abbreviations - The State Journal-Register
Deciphering clinical abbreviations with privacy protecting ML - Research at Google
Abbreviated MRI suffices in imaging dense breasts - AuntMinnie
De-escalation or abbreviation of dual antiplatelet therapy in acute coronary syndromes and percutaneous coronary intervention: a Consensus Statement from an international expert panel on coronary thrombosis - Nature
BTW, here's Michigan's most searched text abbreviations for 2025 - Monroe Evening News
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'abbreviate'
Language Equivalent   Language Equivalent
French abréger    Spanish
Misspellings - Typos
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Words Starting with Letter - 'A'
a a battery a billion
a bit a bit much a capella singing
a cappella singing a couple of a few
a fortiori a good deal a great deal
a horizon a hundred a hundred and one
a hundred thousand a hundred times a kempis
a la carte a la mode a level
a little a lot a million
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