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Abbreviated

Definition of abbreviated:

Shortened; curtailed.

He blinked his eyes at Carolyn May and looked as sorry as ever a dog with cropped ears and an abbreviated tail could look. "Carolyn of the Corners", Ruth Belmore Endicott.
But we cannot see how the innocent bystander profits, when the free citizen is forbidden to go fishing on Sunday, to smoke in public, to see certain plays, to get Anthony Comstock reports and the Kreutzer Sonata through the mails; to say in public just what he wants to say- to exercise freedom of speech; to kiss his girl in the parks, or a woman to wear abbreviated skirts,- ad libitum! "The Menace of Prohibition", Lulu Wightman.
So the people called the village " Mawpun- ka- Rytiang," or, when abbreviated Mawpunkyrtiang." "The Khasis", P. R. T. Gurdon.
The word seems to be an abbreviated form of the word goodwife. "A Collection of College Words and Customs", Benjamin Homer Hall.

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