The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - abridgementn.

1) shortening, reduction, abbreviation, condensation, contraction, truncation, trimming: The abridgement took ten years. 2) curtailment: We protested against the abridgement of our right to picket. 3) digest, condensation, epitome, compendium, concise edition or version, cut edition or version; synopsis, abstract, summary, pr‚cis, outline, r‚sum‚: The one-volume abridgement of the dictionary is easier to use.