Words similar to abridge

Example sentences for: abridge

How can you use “abridge” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

He sought to abridge the attorney-client privilege by commanding Vince Foster's lawyer to divulge what Foster had told the lawyer before committing suicide.
It is wrong on the law because there is utterly no precedent for the novel and facially implausible proposition that the First Amendment has anything to do with government funding that- though it does not actually abridge anyone's speech- "distorts an existing medium of expression."
A serious concern expressed by physicians is that documenting alcohol use in the medical record has the potential to abridge patient confidentiality about sensitive issues.
So the complainers were not only trying to abridge freedom of expression, they were wildly off-base.
To abridge is "to contract, to diminish; to deprive of."