To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense.
Cut short; truncate.
To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.
To curtail.
To summarize or repeat in concise form.
(biology, of an organism) To mirror or repeat in analogous form, especially in reference to an individual's development passing through stages corresponding to the species' stages of evolutionary development.
To reproduce or closely resemble (as in structure or function).