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adjective:  Brief, yet including all important information
adjective:  (obsolete) Physically short or truncated
verb:  (India, transitive) To make concise; to abridge or summarize.compendious, succinct, laconic, pithy, sententious, terse, cryptic, brief, summary, curt, more...

quickly said,  of few words,  using few words,  less verbose,  very brief



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