What are the opposite words for abridge?
Abridge means to shorten or condense a piece of writing, speech or a book. Antonyms of abridge are expand, intensify, lengthen, amplify, augment, stretch, grow and develop. Expanding means to make something bigger or to increase its size or amount. Intensify refers to increase the strength or power of something. Lengthen is to make something longer in size or duration. Amplify is to increase the volume or intensity of a sound or a signal. Augment means to make something greater by adding to it. Stretch means to extend or elongate something. Grow means to increase in size or quantity. Develop means to evolve or mature gradually.
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- intensify
- increase
- exaggerate
- expand
- strengthen
- double
- thicken
- heighten
- extend
- unfold
- amplify
- broaden
- bulge
- discourse
- display
- enlarge
- multiply
- open up
- raise
- ramble
- ramify
- spread out
- wax
- aggrandize
- balloon
- branch
- develop
- dilate
- elaborate
- embroider
- fan
- grow
- hyperbolize
- inflate
- magnify
- overstate
- provoke
- spread
- swell
- widen
- cause something to seem or be greater, bigger
- increase in size or effect
- make greater; improve
- billow out; bloat
- bloat
- blow up like a balloon
- extend, supplement
- increase, accelerate
- project outward
- expand, work out
- stretch, widen
- distend
- discuss, speak about
- show for public viewing, effect
- bulge, swell
- make two of; make twice as large
- make detailed; expand
- exaggerate information
- make or grow bigger; increase
- increase, be increased
- augment
- overstate, embellish
- make larger, longer
- gain, increase
- become larger, evolve
- add or grow
- enlarge, intensify
- increase; reproduce
- increase, augment
- talk aimlessly, endlessly
- open or fan out
- make more forceful, powerful
- become large, fuller
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
- intensify
- increase
-
exaggerate
- hyperbolize,
- overdraw,
- overstate,
- pretty up,
- Caricatured,
- Caricaturing,
- Misreport,
- Overdrew,
- Overdrawn,
- Overdrawing,
- Romanced,
- Romancing,
- misreporting,
- scamming,
- scammed,
- misreported,
- go to extremes,
- lay it on thick,
- make too much of,
- blow out of proportion,
- blew out of proportion,
- blew out proportion,
- blow out proportion,
- blowing out of proportion,
- blowing out proportion,
- blows out of proportion,
- blows out proportion,
- goes to extremes,
- going extremes,
- laid it on thick,
- laid it thick,
- laid on thick,
- laid thick,
- lay it thick,
- lay on thick,
- lay thick,
- laying it on thick,
- laying it thick,
- laying on thick,
- laying thick,
- lays it on thick,
- lays it thick,
- lays on thick,
- lays thick,
- loud talk,
- loud talked,
- loud talking,
- loud talks,
- made too much of,
- makes too much of,
- making too much of,
- mis quoted,
- mis quotes,
- mis quoting,
- mis report,
- mis reporting,
- mis reports,
- mis represent,
- mis represented,
- mis representing,
- mis represents,
- mis-quote,
- mis-quoted,
- mis-quotes,
- mis-quoting,
- mis-report,
- mis-reported,
- mis-reporting,
- mis-represent,
- mis-represented,
- mis-representing,
- mis-represents,
- misreports,
- over draw,
- over drawing,
- over draws,
- over drew,
- over-draw,
- over-drawing,
- over-drawn,
- over-draws,
- over-drew,
- overdraws,
- prettied up,
- prettying up,
- went extremes,
- went to extremes.
-
expand
- expand,
- expanding,
- fan out,
- outspread,
- tack on,
- outspreading,
- bulk up,
- bulked up,
- bulking up,
- bulks up,
- de tail,
- de tailed,
- de tailing,
- de tails,
- de-tail,
- de-tailed,
- de-tailing,
- de-tails,
- ex plicate,
- ex plicated,
- ex plicates,
- ex plicating,
- ex-plicate,
- ex-plicated,
- ex-plicates,
- ex-plicating,
- fanned out,
- fanning out,
- fans out,
- out spread,
- out spreading,
- out spreads,
- out-spreading,
- out-spreads,
- outspreads,
- tacked on,
- tacking on,
- tacks on,
- un ravel,
- un raveled,
- un raveling,
- un ravelled,
- un ravelling,
- un ravels,
- un-ravel,
- un-raveled,
- un-raveling,
- un-ravelled,
- un-ravelling,
- un-ravels.
-
strengthen
- tone up,
- toned,
- Sinewed,
- Toning,
- make firm,
- adds fuel fire,
- adds fuel to fire,
- makes firm,
- making firm,
- re generate,
- re generated,
- re generates,
- re generating,
- re new,
- re news,
- re store,
- re stored,
- re stores,
- re storing,
- re-generate,
- re-generated,
- re-generates,
- re-generating,
- re-new,
- re-news,
- re-stored,
- re-stores,
- re-storing,
- toned up.
-
double
- pleated,
- pleating,
- plicate,
- dualize,
- dualized,
- dualizes,
- dualizing,
- duplified,
- duplifies,
- duplify,
- duplifying,
- in fold,
- in folding,
- in folds,
- in-fold,
- in-folded,
- in-folding,
- in-folds,
- plicating,
- re double,
- re doubled,
- re doubles,
- re doubling,
- re peat,
- re peats,
- re plicated,
- re plicates,
- re plicating,
- re-double,
- re-doubled,
- re-doubles,
- re-doubling,
- re-peat,
- re-peats,
- re-plicate,
- re-plicated,
- re-plicates,
- re-plicating.
- thicken
- heighten
-
extend
- bring forward,
- crane,
- drag one's feet,
- let out,
- mantled,
- protract,
- put forward,
- reach out,
- spin out,
- string out,
- Lasted,
- Mantling,
- Tendered,
- Tendering,
- run on,
- Craned,
- Craning,
- reaches out,
- reached out,
- reaching out,
- tenders,
- cranes,
- put forth,
- brought forward,
- spun out,
- be stow,
- be stowed,
- be stowing,
- be stows,
- be-stow,
- be-stowed,
- be-stowing,
- be-stows,
- bringing forward,
- brings forward,
- drag feet,
- drag one feet,
- drag ones feet,
- dragged feet,
- dragged one feet,
- dragged one's feet,
- dragged ones feet,
- dragging feet,
- dragging one feet,
- dragging one's feet,
- dragging ones feet,
- drags feet,
- drags one feet,
- drags one's feet,
- drags ones feet,
- ex tend,
- ex tended,
- ex tending,
- ex tends,
- ex-tend,
- ex-tended,
- ex-tending,
- ex-tends,
- lets out,
- letted out,
- letting out,
- place at disposal,
- place disposal,
- placed at disposal,
- places at disposal,
- places disposal,
- placing at disposal,
- placing disposal,
- puts forth,
- puts forward,
- putting forth,
- putting forward,
- ran on,
- runs on,
- span out,
- spinning out,
- spins out,
- spreading out,
- stringed out,
- stringing out,
- strings out,
- strung out.
-
unfold
- unbend,
- unbent,
- uncreased,
- uncurl,
- uncurled,
- uncurling,
- uncurls,
- shake out,
- reel out,
- dis entangle,
- dis entangled,
- dis entangles,
- dis entangling,
- dis-entangle,
- dis-entangled,
- dis-entangles,
- dis-entangling,
- re lease,
- re leases,
- re-lease,
- re-leased,
- re-leases,
- reeled out,
- reels out,
- shakes out,
- shaking out,
- shook out,
- un bend,
- un bended,
- un bending,
- un bends,
- un bent,
- un crease,
- un creased,
- un creasing,
- un curl,
- un curled,
- un curling,
- un curls,
- un did,
- un does,
- un doing,
- un done,
- un fold,
- un folded,
- un folding,
- un folds,
- un wrap,
- un wrapped,
- un wrapping,
- un wraps,
- un-bend,
- un-bended,
- un-bending,
- un-bends,
- un-bent,
- un-crease,
- un-creased,
- un-creases,
- un-creasing,
- un-curl,
- un-curled,
- un-curling,
- un-curls,
- un-did,
- un-does,
- un-doing,
- un-fold,
- un-folded,
- un-folding,
- un-folds,
- un-wrap,
- un-wrapping,
- un-wraps,
- unbended,
- uncrease,
- uncreases,
- uncreasing.
- amplify
- broaden
- bulge
-
discourse
- commentate,
- dissertate,
- Dissert,
- Re-mark,
- commentates,
- commentating,
- commentated,
- hold forth,
- holding forth,
- de bate,
- de bated,
- de bates,
- de bating,
- de claim,
- de claimed,
- de claiming,
- de claims,
- de scant,
- de scanted,
- de scanting,
- de scants,
- de-bate,
- de-bated,
- de-bates,
- de-bating,
- de-claim,
- de-claimed,
- de-claiming,
- de-claims,
- de-scant,
- de-scanted,
- de-scanting,
- de-scants,
- dilate up on,
- dilate upon,
- dilated up on,
- dilated upon,
- dilates up on,
- dilates upon,
- dilating up on,
- dilating upon,
- dis course,
- dis coursed,
- dis courses,
- dis coursing,
- dis sert,
- dis-course,
- dis-coursed,
- dis-courses,
- dis-coursing,
- dis-sert,
- dissertated,
- dissertates,
- dissertating,
- disserted,
- disserting,
- disserts,
- ex plain,
- ex plained,
- ex plaining,
- ex plains,
- ex-plain,
- ex-plained,
- ex-plaining,
- ex-plains,
- gave meeting,
- give a meeting,
- give meeting,
- gives a meeting,
- gives meeting,
- giving a meeting,
- giving meeting,
- held forth,
- holds forth,
- re mark,
- re marked,
- re marking,
- re marks,
- re-marked,
- re-marking,
- re-marks.
-
display
- making known,
- set out,
- stretch out,
- stretched out,
- Re-present,
- showcasing,
- showcases,
- showcased,
- lay bare,
- make known,
- open out,
- Grand-stand,
- made known,
- make clear,
- laid bare,
- made clear,
- be tray,
- be trays,
- be-tray,
- be-trays,
- bring to view,
- bring view,
- bringing to view,
- bringing view,
- brings to view,
- brings view,
- brought to view,
- brought view,
- dis close,
- dis closed,
- dis closes,
- dis closing,
- dis play,
- dis played,
- dis playing,
- dis plays,
- dis-close,
- dis-closed,
- dis-closes,
- dis-closing,
- dis-play,
- dis-played,
- dis-playing,
- dis-plays,
- ex pose,
- ex posed,
- ex-pose,
- ex-posed,
- ex-posing,
- grand stand,
- grand standing,
- grand stands,
- grand-standing,
- grand-stands,
- laying bare,
- makes clear,
- makes known,
- opened out,
- opening out,
- opens out,
- pre sent,
- pre-sent,
- pre-sents,
- re present,
- re presented,
- re presenting,
- re presents,
- re veals,
- re-presented,
- re-presenting,
- re-presents,
- re-veal,
- re-veals,
- sets out,
- setting out,
- spread out,
- spreads out,
- stretching out,
- un cover,
- un covered,
- un covering,
- un covers,
- un furled,
- un furling,
- un mask,
- un masked,
- un masking,
- un masks,
- un roll,
- un rolled,
- un rolling,
- un rolls,
- un veil,
- un veiled,
- un veiling,
- un veils,
- un-cover,
- un-covering,
- un-covers,
- un-furled,
- un-furling,
- un-mask,
- un-masked,
- un-masking,
- un-masks,
- un-roll,
- un-rolled,
- un-rolling,
- un-rolls,
- un-veil,
- un-veiled,
- un-veiling,
- un-veils.
-
enlarge
- diffused,
- diffusing,
- jazz up,
- slap on,
- Bulked,
- Bulking,
- diffuses,
- upsurging,
- gave details,
- give details,
- gives details,
- giving details,
- grew larger,
- grow larger,
- growing larger,
- grows larger,
- jazzes up,
- jazzing up,
- made larger,
- make larger,
- makes larger,
- making larger,
- slapped on,
- slapping on,
- slaps on,
- up surge,
- up surged,
- up surges,
- up surging,
- up-surge,
- up-surged,
- up-surges,
- up-surging,
- upsurged.
- multiply
- open up
-
raise
- fetch up,
- forgather,
- shoot up,
- Massing,
- gooses,
- goosing,
- forgathering,
- forgathers,
- forgathered,
- shooting up,
- congressed,
- congressing,
- fetched up,
- goose up,
- goosed,
- goosed up,
- gooses up,
- goosing up,
- send through roof,
- send through the roof,
- sending through roof,
- sending through the roof,
- sends through roof,
- sends through the roof,
- sent through roof,
- sent through the roof,
- shoots up.
-
ramble
- blathering,
- rattle on,
- Excurse,
- Blathered,
- Prosing,
- Prosed,
- go astray,
- get off the subject,
- am diffuse,
- are diffuse,
- art diffuse,
- be diffuse,
- beat around bush,
- beating around bush,
- beats around bush,
- being diffuse,
- de part,
- de parted,
- de parting,
- de parts,
- de-part,
- de-parted,
- de-parting,
- de-parts,
- ex curse,
- ex cursed,
- ex curses,
- ex cursing,
- ex-cursed,
- ex-curses,
- ex-cursing,
- excursed,
- excursing,
- gat off subject,
- gat off the subject,
- gat subject,
- gat the subject,
- get off subject,
- get subject,
- get the subject,
- gets off subject,
- gets off the subject,
- gets the subject,
- getting subject,
- getting the subject,
- go and on,
- go off on tangent,
- go off tangent,
- go on and on,
- go on on,
- go on tangent,
- go tangent,
- goes and on,
- goes astray,
- goes off on tangent,
- goes off tangent,
- goes on on,
- goes on tangent,
- goes tangent,
- going and on,
- going astray,
- going off on tangent,
- going off tangent,
- going on on,
- going on tangent,
- going tangent,
- got off the subject,
- got subject,
- got the subject,
- gotten off subject,
- gotten off the subject,
- gotten subject,
- gotten the subject,
- lose the thread,
- lose thread,
- loses the thread,
- losing the thread,
- lost the thread,
- rant and rave,
- rant rave,
- ranted and rave,
- ranted rave,
- rants and rave,
- rants rave,
- rattled on,
- rattles on,
- rattling on,
- talk off top head,
- talk off top of head,
- talk randomly,
- talk top head,
- talk top of head,
- talked nonsense,
- talked off top head,
- talked off top of head,
- talked randomly,
- talked top of head,
- talking nonsense,
- talking off top head,
- talking top of head,
- talks nonsense,
- talks off top head,
- talks off top of head,
- talks randomly,
- talks top head,
- talks top of head,
- was diffuse,
- wast diffuse,
- went astray,
- went off on tangent,
- went on on,
- went on tangent,
- were diffuse.
- ramify
- spread out
- wax
- aggrandize
- balloon
- branch
- develop
-
dilate
- spin off,
- am profuse,
- am prolix,
- are profuse,
- are prolix,
- art profuse,
- art prolix,
- be profuse,
- be prolix,
- being profuse,
- being prolix,
- ex pound,
- ex pounded,
- ex pounding,
- ex pounds,
- ex-pound,
- ex-pounded,
- ex-pounding,
- ex-pounds,
- is profuse,
- is prolix,
- pro long,
- pro longing,
- pro longs,
- pro tract,
- pro tracts,
- pro-long,
- pro-longed,
- pro-longing,
- pro-longs,
- pro-tract,
- pro-tracts,
- span off,
- spinning off,
- spins off,
- spun off,
- was profuse,
- was prolix,
- wast prolix,
- were profuse,
- were prolix,
- wert profuse,
- wert prolix.
- elaborate
-
embroider
- over-embellished,
- overemphasize,
- overestimate,
- overestimated,
- overestimates,
- overestimating,
- overemphasizes,
- yeasting,
- overemphasized,
- over-estimate,
- stretch the truth,
- stretching the truth,
- blow upped,
- blow upping,
- blow ups,
- blow-up,
- blow-upped,
- blow-upping,
- blow-ups,
- blowupped,
- blowupping,
- co loring,
- co-loring,
- made federal case,
- made mountain out molehill,
- made mountain out of molehill,
- make federal case,
- make mountain out molehill,
- make mountain out of molehill,
- makes mountain out molehill,
- makes mountain out of molehill,
- making federal case,
- making mountain out molehill,
- making mountain out of molehill,
- over did,
- over does,
- over doing,
- over done,
- over elaborate,
- over elaborated,
- over elaborating,
- over embellished,
- over embellishes,
- over emphasize,
- over emphasized,
- over emphasizes,
- over emphasizing,
- over estimate,
- over estimated,
- over estimates,
- over estimating,
- over-did,
- over-doing,
- over-elaborate,
- over-elaborates,
- over-elaborating,
- over-embellish,
- over-embellishes,
- over-embellishing,
- over-emphasize,
- over-emphasizes,
- over-emphasizing,
- over-estimated,
- over-estimates,
- over-estimating,
- overelaborate,
- overelaborated,
- overelaborating,
- overembellish,
- overembellished,
- overembellishing,
- spread on thick,
- spread thick,
- spreading on thick,
- spreading thick,
- spreads on thick,
- spreads thick,
- stretch truth,
- stretched the truth,
- stretched truth,
- stretching truth,
- yeasted.
- fan
-
grow
- branch out,
- burst forth,
- pop up,
- spring up,
- be came,
- be come,
- be comes,
- be coming,
- be-came,
- be-come,
- be-comes,
- be-coming,
- bursted forth,
- bursting forth,
- bursts forth,
- came be,
- came to be,
- come be,
- come to be,
- comes be,
- comes to be,
- coming be,
- coming to be,
- gat bigger,
- gat taller,
- get bigger,
- get taller,
- gets bigger,
- gets taller,
- getting bigger,
- getting taller,
- got bigger,
- got taller,
- gotten bigger,
- gotten taller,
- popped up,
- popping up,
- pops up,
- sprang up,
- springs up.
- hyperbolize
- inflate
- magnify
- overstate
-
provoke
- fan.
-
spread
- even out,
- roll out,
- rolled out,
- uncoil,
- uncoiled,
- untwist,
- untwisted,
- untwisting,
- am displayed,
- am distributed,
- are displayed,
- are distributed,
- be displayed,
- be distributed,
- being displayed,
- being distributed,
- dis perse,
- dis-perse,
- evened out,
- evening out,
- evens out,
- is displayed,
- is distributed,
- out stretch,
- out stretches,
- out stretching,
- out-stretch,
- out-stretched,
- out-stretches,
- out-stretching,
- over laid,
- over laying,
- over lays,
- over-laid,
- over-lay,
- over-laying,
- over-lays,
- pre pare,
- pre pared,
- pre pares,
- pre paring,
- pre-pare,
- pre-pared,
- pre-paring,
- re ached,
- re aching,
- re-ached,
- re-aching,
- rolling out,
- rolls out,
- un coil,
- un coiled,
- un coiling,
- un coils,
- un twist,
- un twisting,
- un twists,
- un wind,
- un winding,
- un winds,
- un wound,
- un-coil,
- un-coiled,
- un-coiling,
- un-coils,
- un-twist,
- un-twisted,
- un-twisting,
- un-twists,
- un-winding,
- un-winds,
- un-wound,
- uncoiling,
- uncoils,
- untwists,
- was displayed,
- was distributed,
- wast displayed,
- wast distributed,
- were displayed,
- were distributed,
- wert displayed,
- wert distributed.
-
swell
- blistered,
- plumping,
- tumefy,
- well up,
- Tumefied,
- plumps,
- are inflated,
- art inflated,
- be inflated,
- became bloated,
- became distended,
- became swollen,
- become bloated,
- become distended,
- become swollen,
- becomes bloated,
- becomes distended,
- becomes swollen,
- becoming bloated,
- becoming distended,
- becoming swollen,
- being inflated,
- in tensity,
- in-tensity,
- intensitied,
- intensitying,
- is inflated,
- rounded out,
- rounding out,
- rounds out,
- tumefies,
- up rise,
- up risen,
- up rises,
- up rising,
- up rose,
- up-rise,
- up-risen,
- up-rises,
- up-rose,
- was inflated,
- wast inflated,
- welled up,
- welling up,
- wells up,
- were inflated,
- wert inflated.
- widen
- cause something to seem or be greater, bigger
- increase in size or effect
- make greater; improve
- billow out; bloat
- bloat
- blow up like a balloon
- extend, supplement
- increase, accelerate
- project outward
- expand, work out
- stretch, widen
- distend
- discuss, speak about
- show for public viewing, effect
- bulge, swell
- make two of; make twice as large
- make detailed; expand
- exaggerate information
- make or grow bigger; increase
- increase, be increased
- augment
- overstate, embellish
- make larger, longer
- gain, increase
-
become larger, evolve
- grow.
- add or grow
- enlarge, intensify
- increase; reproduce
- increase, augment
- talk aimlessly, endlessly
- open or fan out
- make more forceful, powerful
-
become large, fuller
- wax.
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
leading the way
- Antonyms:
- abandon, follow, misguide.
