<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>A shortened or condensed form of a book, speech, etc., that still retains the basic contents: an abridgment of Tolstoy's War and Peace.</li><li>The act or process of abridging.</li><li>The state of being abridged.</li><li>Reduction or curtailment: abridgment of civil rights.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>