Clues for the word "ABRIDGE"
We've had 56 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 111 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on December 05, 2025.
Definition of abridge
- v. t. - To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.
- v. t. - To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary.
- v. t. - To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by from; as, to abridge one of his rights.
Referring Clues
- Cut
- Condense
- Shorten
- Cut down
- Reduce in scope
- With 16-Across, Division division * Cut
- Adapt for audio format, perhaps
- Reduce, as a text
- Edit substantially
- Truncate
- Curtail
- Abbreviate
- Reduce in volume?
- Condense a novel
- Condense, as a novel
- Make a long story short
- Shorten Arsenal's first game
- Shorten a card game
- Brigade (anag.)
- Shorten (a book)
- Shorten into one volume, maybe
- A game of tricks cut short
- Big read (anag) - shorten text
- Shorten a river crossing
- Contract that makes a ferryman redundant?
- Shorten (a text)
- Make a precis of
- Shorten (text)
- Contract given to a composer
- Shorten a crossing
- Shorten written work
- Precis a game
- A game to cut short
- One attracted to card game shows how to cut
- A game cut short
- A couple's contract
- A game 1 across
- Shorten a game of cards
- Make a long story short, e.g.
- Cut for a game of cards
- Bailey, perhaps, is after a contract
- Cut in card game
- Director-general tucked into a cheese, which is cut
- Sailor on raised ground cut down
- A spouse accepting government contract
- Shorten a violin part
- Cut short a game
- Reduce the length of a card game
- A rest cut short
- Raised band led by sailor in trim
- Shorten a game?
- Refrain from speaking with gold figure, prune!
- Shorten the crossing
- Reduce the word count of?
- Trim
- Condense, as a dictionary
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - December 05, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 14, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 12, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 05, 2025
- Daily American - December 23, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - December 05, 2024
- Daily Quick - September 25, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - July 01, 2024
- LA Times - June 15, 2024
- Daily Quick - June 03, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - December 05, 2023
- Daily Quick - November 18, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 06, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - August 12, 2023
- Daily Quick - July 05, 2023
- Daily American - December 23, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - December 05, 2022
- Mirror Daily - November 21, 2022
- Daily Quick - September 25, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - July 01, 2022
- New York Times - April 28, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - December 05, 2017
- Daily Quick - November 18, 2017
- Mirror Quick - September 29, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - September 13, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 05, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - August 12, 2017
- Mirror Quick - July 22, 2017
- Daily Quick - July 05, 2017
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