Verb

(en verb)

To make thicker (in the sense of wider).

To make thicker (in the sense of more viscous).

To become thicker (in the sense of wider).

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To become thicker (in the sense of more viscous).

To strengthen; to confirm.

* (William Shakespeare)

And this may help to thicken other proofs.

To make more frequent.

Verb

(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.