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ABUT
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Irregular inflected forms: abutted , abutting
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they abut ... he / she / it abuts
Past simple: abutted
Past participle: abutted
-ing form: abutting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
Example:
England marches with Scotland
Synonyms:
abut; adjoin; border; butt; butt against; butt on; edge; march
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "abut" is one way to...):
adjoin; contact; meet; touch (be in direct physical contact with; make contact)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "abut"):
neighbor; neighbour (be located near or adjacent to)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Derivation:
abutment (point of contact between two objects or parts)
abutter (the owner of contiguous property)
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