Words that rhyme with breckinridge

v 1: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened" [syn: abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce] [ant: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate] 2: lessen, diminish, or curtail; "the new law might abridge our freedom of expression"

n 1: the act of marrying again

n 1: waste matter carried away in sewers or drains [syn: sewage, sewerage] 2: a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water [syn: sewer, sewerage, cloaca]

n 1: the cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship 2: the act of steering a ship [syn: steering, steerage]

n 1: the act of storing something 2: a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the docks" [syn: storehouse, depot, entrepot, storage, store] 3: the commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials 4: (computer science) the process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic tape or disk 5: an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached" [syn: memory, computer memory, storage, computer storage, store, memory board] 6: depositing in a warehouse; "they decided to reposition their furniture in a recommended repository in Brooklyn"; "my car is in storage"; "publishers reduced print runs to cut down the cost of warehousing" [syn: repositing, reposition, storage, warehousing]

n 1: a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment; "American women got the vote in 1920" [syn: right to vote, vote, suffrage]

n 1: a feeling of anger caused by being offended; "he took offence at my question" [syn: umbrage, offense, offence]

n 1: framework that serves as a support for the body of a vehicle

n 1: an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector [syn: parsonage, vicarage, rectory]

n 1: platform scale flush with a roadway for weighing vehicles and cattle etc

n 1: a university in England [syn: Cambridge University, Cambridge] 2: a city in Massachusetts just to the north of Boston; site of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3: a city in eastern England on the River Cam; site of Cambridge University

n 1: British economist (born in India) whose report on social insurance provided the basis for most of the social legislation on which the welfare state in the United Kingdom is based (1879-1963) [syn: Beveridge, William Henry Beveridge, First Baron Beveridge]

n 1: English romantic poet (1772-1834) [syn: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge]

n 1: (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship) [syn: harborage, harbourage]

n 1: charged by a government for coining bullion