Abridges is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 479 anagrams from letters in abridges (abdegirs).
1350-1400; Middle English abreggen, abriggen Middle French abreg(i)er Late Latin abbreviāre to shorten. See a-4, abbreviate
The novelist, like every other artist, must abridge and select.
We must not abridge the liberties of the press or the people.
Experience shows that it takes less time to transcribe titles in full, than to abridge them with any tolerable degree of accuracy.
These the Editor has rather endeavoured to abridge than completely to remove.
We abridge from watery Pollnitz, taking care of any sense he has.
I find that I must abridge, by abstaining from the reading of extracts.
Who on earth is empowered to vary or abridge the commandments of God?
At the right time and in the right dose, it can ease and abridge economic maladies.
But since the parting must be, 't is well to abridge the pain of long farewell.
If an attempt be made to abridge that power, they preach arms and rebellion.