(obsolete, transitive) To shorten by omitting parts or details. / (obsolete, intransitive) To speak or write in a brief manner.

(obsolete) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened. / (biology) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.

(obsolete, Scotland) An abridgment.

A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. / A place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed.

(transitive) To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap.

Leading away; a carrying away. / (anatomy) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.

Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked. / No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.

simple past tense and past participle of abandon

The act of wandering; deviation from truth, moral rectitude; abnormal; divergence from the straight, correct, proper, normal, or from the natural state.

(transitive) To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.