verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Is it correct to abbreviate 'Avenue', 'Street' and so on when writing an address on an envelope?
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The word "kilogram' is usually abbreviated to "kg'.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also, in writing of events the writer is certain to have to abbreviate any descriptions very sharply.
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Can you relate this use of questions to the fact that you is deleted from abbreviated questions?
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However, the tag cases are only one part of the general deletion processes that affect subject and auxiliary in abbreviated style.
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Tag-Controlled Deletion is a rule of the abbreviated style in informal language.
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Television, it should be remembered, can conserve and celebrate just as it can abbreviate and denature.
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The most moderate view is that Celsus' discussion has been abbreviated.
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The solution is to abbreviate , contract and condense.
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Unless he can marry, he is often destined to a troubled and abbreviated life.