Reduct vs Abridge - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between reduct and abridge

is that reduct is (obsolete|transitive) to reduce while abridge is (archaic) to deprive; to cut off .

is (chemistry) a reducing agent.

(en noun)

(chemistry) A reducing agent.

(obsolete) To reduce.

(nonstandard) To duct tape again.

(nonstandard) To channel through a duct again.

(abridg)

(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.

He had his rights abridged by the crooked sheriff.

* (deprive) Usually used with to' or sometimes with '''from''' as, to ' abridge one of his rights.

* abridged * abridger * abridgement