What is the difference between fewer and abridge?
fewer | abridge |
The comparative of few ; a smaller number.
(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.
As a determiner fewer
is the comparative of few; a smaller number.As a verb abridge is
to deprive; to cut off.fewer
English
Determiner
(en-det) (superlative fewest)- Fewer women wear hats these days.
- There are fewer tigers than there were a hundred years ago.
Usage notes
See also
* lessabridge
English
Verb
(abridg)- He had his rights abridged by the crooked sheriff.
