Abridge

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
• lessen, diminish, or curtail; "the new law might abridge our freedom of expression"
• To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights; To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary; To deprive; to cut off.
• To reduce the scope; to shorten by means of the omission or words without sacrificing their meaning
• To shorten by omissions while retaining the basic contents; to reduce or lessen in duration, scope, authority, etc.
• Order to bring forward date allocated for hearing (or arbitration) etc.