Abbreviate

1. n. An abridgment.
2. v. t. To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.
3. v. t. To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
4. a. Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
5. a. Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.