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動詞

briefen (三人称単数 現在形 briefens, 現在分詞 briefening, 過去形および過去分詞形 briefened)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become brief
   • 1897, The Chicago Clinical Review, volume 6, page 594:

     Many of the more striking facts should be briefened in language and laid before the entire medical world.

   • 1907, Proceedings at the ... Annual Meeting of the Free Religious Association, volume 40:

     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.