abridged

adj. shortened, condensed

v. condense, shorten; make shorter in words

Abridgement or abridgment is a term defined as "shortening" or "condensing" and is most commonly used in reference to the act of reducing a written work, typically a book, into a shorter form.A written work is mostly abridged for adaptation into an audio book, to make a more convenient companion to an already established work, or as part of censorship of the work.
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Adjective
1. (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting; "an abridged version"
(antonym) unabridged
(similar) cut, shortened
(see-also) short

Verb
1. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
(synonym) foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce
(hypernym) decrease, lessen, minify
(hyponym) bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten
(verb-group) edit, cut, edit out
(derivation) condensation, abridgement, abridgment, capsule

(imp. & p. p.)
of Abridge
  

Synonyms and related words:
Spartan, abbreviated, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed, brief, brusque, capsule, capsulized, clipped, close, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, cropped, curt, curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, pithy, pointed, pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reserved, sententious, shaved, sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, trimmed, truncated,