abbreviate

verbs

reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
"The manuscript must be shortened"
abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten
is derived from
abbreviator
shorten
"Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'"
abbreviate
is derived from
abbreviation
is derived from
abbreviator
is a type of (narrower)
make less complex
"reduce a problem to a single question"
reduce