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abbreviate

English

  1. 🔊 shorten
    “Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'”
  2. 🔊 reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
    “The manuscript must be shortened”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 abreviar to abbreviate, to shorten

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