- present participle of abbreviate.
abbreviating
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If you want to seem sincere and receive more responses to your texts, spell out words instead of abbreviating them, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024
They didn’t want to anger the big guy by abbreviating his name on a sundial.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2021
And then the boss said: “Guys, I hate to be a noodge, but could we get back to abbreviating the states? We still have 49 left.”
From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2019
Although they are technically abbreviations, sometimes they hardly even hint at the word they are abbreviating.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2019
The Dorians were not so much to be blamed for their abbreviating, as the other Greeks were for their unnecessary terminations, and inflexions.
From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant
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