abbreviate

lyhentää puhekieltä To shorten by omitting parts or details. (defdate)(R:SOED5)
(quote-book)|year=1597|passage=It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off.
puhekieltä To speak or write in a brief manner. (defdate)
puhekieltä To make shorter; to shorten; to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned. (defdate)
puhekieltä To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form. (defdate)
puhekieltä To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
puhekieltä Abbreviated; abridged; shortened. (defdate)
(quote-book)|year=1892
puhekieltä Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type. (defdate)
puhekieltä An abridgment. (defdate)
Being abbreviated.
(inflection of)