Succinct vs Abridge - What's the difference?
succinct | abridge |
brief and to the point
compressed into a tiny area.
(archaic) wrapped by, or as if by a girdle; closely fitting, wound or wrapped or drawn up tightly.
(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 an adjective succinct
is brief and to the point.As a verb abridge is
to deprive; to cut off.succinct
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Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* concise * laconic * See alsoDerived terms
* succinctness * succinctlyabridge
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Verb
(abridg)- He had his rights abridged by the crooked sheriff.
