verb🔗ShareTo shorten by omitting parts or details."When writing addresses, we are abbreviating "Street" to "St." and "Avenue" to "Ave." "languagewritingcommunicationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo speak or write in a brief manner."The teacher was abbreviating "United States of America" to "USA" while writing on the board. "languagecommunicationwritingChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned."To save time, the teacher was abbreviating her lesson by skipping the final review. "languagewritingcommunicationgrammarChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form."When writing the date in a hurry, I often end up abbreviating "August" to "Aug." "languagegrammarwritingwordcommunicationlinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo reduce to lower terms, as a fraction."The math teacher showed us how to simplify fractions by abbreviating them to their lowest terms. "mathlanguageChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
