"briefen" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "brief + -en",
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  "etymology_text": "From brief + -en.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "briefens",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "briefening",
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        "present"
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    {
      "form": "briefened",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "briefened",
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        "past"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1897, The Chicago Clinical Review, volume 6, page 594",
          "text": "Many of the more striking facts should be briefened in language and laid before the entire medical world.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Proceedings at the ... Annual Meeting of the Free Religious Association, volume 40",
          "text": "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.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To make or become brief"
      ],
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        [
          "brief",
          "brief"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) To make or become brief"
      ],
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        "transitive"
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  "word": "briefen"
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        "2": "brief",
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      "expansion": "brief + -en",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From brief + -en.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "briefens",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "briefening",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "briefened",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "briefened",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1897, The Chicago Clinical Review, volume 6, page 594",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Proceedings at the ... Annual Meeting of the Free Religious Association, volume 40",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make or become brief"
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To make or become brief"
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  "word": "briefen"
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