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Term: abviate

Description:

- Part of Speech: Verb

- Sense: To shorten or reduce something, especially a word or phrase.

- Usage: This term is commonly used in various fields including language, medicine, and technology to indicate the act of abbreviating or shortening text or expressions. It refers to making something briefer without losing its essential meaning or content.

Sample Sentences:

1. The professor asked the students to abviate their essays to fit within the word limit.

2. In formal writing, it is advised to avoid excessive abviation and instead use full words.

3. Please abviate "United States of America" as "USA" when writing the address.

4. Programming languages often provide built-in functions to easily abviate lengthy commands.

5. You may use "e.g." to abviate the Latin phrase "exempli gratia" which means "for example."

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