Cram vs Abridge - What's the difference?
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The act of cramming.
Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.
A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
To ; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people.
To fill with food to ; to stuff.
To put through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.
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To , and to satiety; to stuff.
To make crude or study.
(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.
Cram is a related term of abridge.
As verbs the difference between cram and abridge
is that cram is to ; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people while abridge is (archaic) to deprive; to cut off .As a noun cram
is the act of cramming.cram
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(cramm)Derived terms
* cram schoolAnagrams
* *abridge
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(abridg)- He had his rights abridged by the crooked sheriff.