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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Abbreviate \Ab*bre"vi*ate\, 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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Abbreviated \Ab*bre"vi*a`ted\, a.
     Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.
     [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Abbreviate \Ab*bre"vi*ate\, 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.
  
              It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting,
              another by cutting off.               --Bacon.
  
     2. (Math.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Abbreviated \Ab*bre"vi*a`ted\, a.
     Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  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]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  abbreviated
     Αγγλικά a.
     1 συντομευμένος
     2 συντομευμένο έργο (βιβλίο, σύνθεση)

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  abbreviated
     a.
     1 shorten; made briefer.
     2 Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others.
     3 scanty, as in clothing.<ref>(R:RHCD: page=1)</ref>
     vb.
     (infl of en abbreviate  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  abbreviated
     a.
     1 shorten; made briefer.
     2 Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others.
     3 scanty, as in clothing.<ref>(R:RHCD: page=1)</ref>
     vb.
     (infl of en abbreviate  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  abbreviated
     a.
     1 shorten; made briefer.
     2 Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others.
     3 scanty, as in clothing.<ref>(R:RHCD: page=1)</ref>
     vb.
     (infl of en abbreviate  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  abbreviated
     a.
     1 shorten; made briefer.
     2 Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others.
     3 scanty, as in clothing.<ref>(R:RHCD: page=1)</ref>
     vb.
     (infl of en abbreviate  ed-form)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  abbreviated
     Englanti vb.
     (en-v-taivm a bbreviate d)

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  abbreviated
     Engelska a.
     (avledning en abbreviate ordform=perfpart)
     Engelska vb.
     (böjning en verb abbreviate)

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Abbreviated /ɐbɹˈiːvɪˌeɪtɪd/
  1. مختصر
  2. مختزل

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  abbreviated /ɐbɹˈiːvɪˌeɪtɪd/
  zkrácený

From Eurfa Saesneg, English-Welsh Eurfa/Freedict dictionary ver. 0.2.3 :   [ freedict:eng-cym ]

  abbreviated /ɐbɹˈiːvɪˌeɪtɪd/ 
  talfyredig 

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  abbreviated /ɐbɹˈiːvɪˌeɪtɪd/ (abbr. /ˈabə/, ) (abr. /ˈabə/)
  abgekürzt, gekürzt gek.,  /ɡˈɛk/

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  abbreviated /ɐbɹˈiːvɪˌeɪtɪd/
  gekürzt, abgekürzt, verkürzt
   see: abbreviate, abbreviating, abbreviates, abbreviated
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  abbreviated /ɐbɹˈiːvɪˌeɪtɪd/
  kürzte, kürzte ab, verkürzte
   see: abbreviate, abbreviating, abbreviated, abbreviates
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  abbreviated /ɐbɹˈiːvɪˌeɪtɪd/
  
  συντομευμένος

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  abbreviated //əˈbɹi.viˌeɪ.tɪd// //əˈbɹiːvieɪtɪd// 
  lyhennetty
  shortened

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  abbreviated //əˈbɹi.viˌeɪ.tɪd// //əˈbɹiːvieɪtɪd// 
  略
  shortened

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  abbreviated /əˈbri:vɪeɪtɪd/ 
    skrócony

From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-por ]

  abbreviated /ɐbɹˈiːvɪˌeɪtɪd/
  abreviado

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  abbreviated //əˈbɹi.viˌeɪ.tɪd// //əˈbɹiːvieɪtɪd// 
  förkortad
  shortened

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/əˈbɹiviˌeɪtɪd/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  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
  
  

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     缩短的,小型的

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