Слово "abridge". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

The song of the Spartiates—“We are what you were; we will be what you are”—is in its simplicity the abridged hymn of every fatherland.

One was the British consul at Suez, who, despite the prophecies of the English Government, and the unfavourable predictions of Stephenson, was in the habit of seeing, from his office window, English ships daily passing to and fro on the great canal, by which the old roundabout route from England to India by the Cape of Good Hope was abridged by at least a half.

“Ah! in that case I must abridge.

In the British Greenland Fishery, under the corrupted title of Specksioneer, this old Dutch official is still retained, but his former dignity is sadly abridged.