So the editor wants to cut your epic 800 page history of the stapler to a 150 page summary instead. Don't cry he just wants to abridge your masterpiece, trimming it down to the more readable essential elements.
To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail;
Verb
reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
v. t.
To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to
diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.
v. t.
To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet
retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a
history or dictionary.
v. t.
To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly
by from; as, to abridge one of his rights.
Abridge
She retired herself to Sebaste, and abridged her train from state to necessity.2.
To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail;
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