To deprive; to cut off.

To debar from.

To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.

To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense.

Cut short; truncate.

To curtail.

"He had his rights abridged by the crooked sheriff."

Cut or shortened, especially of a literary work.

"The novel was abridged by the author to make the audio recording a more manageable length."