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briefen en · VERB

Etymology

From brief + -en.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To make or become brief
   • Many of the more striking facts should be briefened in language and laid before the entire medical world. 1897, The Chicago Clinical Review, volume 6, page 594:
   • It briefens the creeds; it federates the sects; it seeks for religious unity; it gives itself, with a devotion which may well challenge our respect, to the alleviation of human misery and to the reform of the social and political order. 1907, Proceedings at the ... Annual Meeting of the Free Religious Association, volume 40:

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