abbreviate[ə'bri:vieit]

• vt.
  • 使简短；缩短；缩简；节略(演讲等)：

    The ceremony was abbreviated by rain.

    因为下雨，仪式从简。

    to abbreviate a speech

    精简演说辞

  • 缩写(词或短语)：

    Esquire can be abbreviated to Esq.

    Esquire可缩写成Esq.。

• vi.
  • 使用缩写词：

    He abbreviated so much that it was hard to understand his article.

    他的文章缩写词使用太多，令人费解。

• 近义词:

  shorten

• 变形:

  vt.abbreviated.abbreviating