What is the difference between condense and abridge?
condense | abridge |
To decrease size or volume by concentration toward the essence.
To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate.
* Milton
* Motley
(chemistry) To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation.
(archaic) Condensed; compact; dense.
(archaic) To deprive; to cut off.
(transitive, archaic, rare) To debar from.
To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.
* The bridegroom ... abridged his visit. - Smollett
* She retired herself to Sebaste, and abridged her train from state to necessity. - Fuller
To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary.
Cut short; truncate.
To curtail.
In context|transitive|lang=en terms the difference between condense and abridge
is that condense is {{context|transitive|lang=en}} to decrease size or volume by concentration toward the essence while abridge is {{context|transitive|lang=en}} to curtail {{defdate|first attested from around (1350 to 1470)}}.As verbs the difference between condense and abridge
is that condense is {{context|transitive|lang=en}} to decrease size or volume by concentration toward the essence while abridge is {{context|transitive|archaic|lang=en}} to deprive; to cut off {{defdate|first attested from around (1150 to 1350)}}{{reference-book | last =| first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | editor =brown, lesley | others = | title = the shorter oxford english dictionary | origdate = | origyear = 1933| origmonth = | url = | format = | accessdate = | accessyear = | accessmonth = | edition = 5th | date = | year =2003| month = | publisher =oxford university press | location =oxford, uk | language = | id = | doi = | isbn =978-0-19-860575-7 | lccn = | ol = | pages =8| chapter = | chapterurl = | quote =}}.As a adjective condense
is {{context|archaic|lang=en}} condensed; compact; dense.condense
English
Alternative forms
* condenceVerb
- An abridged dictionary can be further condensed to pocket size.
- Boiling off water condenses a thin sauce into a soupier mixture.
- In what shape they choose, / Dilated or condensed , bright or obscure.
- The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation.
Synonyms
* (to decrease size or volume) minifyAntonyms
* extend * magnifyAdjective
(en adjective)- The huge condense bodies of planets. — Bentley.
abridge
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Verb
(abridg)- He had his rights abridged by the crooked sheriff.