Narrowed, limited, abbreviated, condensed, etc.: see contract, v. 9. Obsolete.

Contracted in expression; abbreviated, concise.

Abridged, curtailed; brief, scant, curt.

figurative. Condensed, concise.

Compressed, concise.

figurative. Concentrated; condensed.

figurative. Put into small compass, highly compressed, compact; esp. of literary work or style.

transferred or gen. Cut short, abbreviated.

Brief, condensed, compressed; small and compact. Originally U.S.