[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

abbreviate \abbre"viate\ a^bbr=e"vi^=at, v. t.
   imp.  p. p. abbreviated; p. pr.  vb. n. abbreviating.
   l. abbreviatus, p. p. of abbreviare; ad + breviare to
   shorten, fr. brevis short. see abridge.
   1. to make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by
      contraction or omission, especially of words written or
      spoken.
      1913 webster

            it is one thing to abbreviate by contracting,
            another by cutting off.               --bacon.
      1913 webster

   2. math. to reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
      1913 webster
see also:
abbreviated abbreviating abridge 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

abbreviated \abbre"via`ted\ a^bbr=e"vi^=a`te^d,
   a.
   shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

abbreviated
     adj 1: of clothing very short; "an abbreviated swimsuit"; "a
            brief bikini" syn: brief
     2: cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "a
        curtailed visit"; "her shortened life was clearly the
        result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated
        conversation" syn: shortened, truncated
see also:
brief shortened truncated 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

58 moby thesaurus words for "abbreviated":
   spartan, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed, brief,
   brusque, capsule, capsulized, clipped, close, compact, compendious,
   compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, cropped, curt,
   curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic,
   epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, pithy, pointed,
   pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reserved, sententious, shaved,
   sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub,
   snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight,
   to the point, trimmed, truncated

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