nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: abovedeck Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From above + deck. 1. Located on deck. Example: These heating elements allow the gun mount to continue to operate when the abovedeck temperature is as low as 40° C. Example: The ship's rocking seemed less noticeable below the water's surface, so the first mate recommended that everyone come out of the abovedeck cabins and staterooms to weather the storm in the lower ballrooms.
Word: abovedeck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From above + deck. 1. The area on a boat that is abovedeck. Example: It's a good idea to plan these jobs in logical steps, working down from abovedeck to the bilge. Example: The brightness from abovedeck made the shadowed interior all the darker.
Word: above-mentioned Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /əˈbʌvˌmɛnʃn̩d/ 1. Mentioned or named before; aforesaid. Labels: not-comparable Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:above-mentioned.
Word: abovesaid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From above + said. Pronunciation: /əˈbʌvˌsɜd/ 1. Mentioned or recited before. Labels: not-comparable Example: ...which being disagreeable to the animal œconomy, is thrust out by nature, into the glands that separate the oyl abovesaid.
Word: abox Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English box English abox From a- + box (“boxhaul”). Pronunciation: /əˈbɑks/ 1. Braced aback Labels: not-comparable
Word: abox Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English box English abox From a- + box (“boxhaul”). Pronunciation: /əˈbɑks/ 1. Braced aback Labels: not-comparable
Word: abracadabra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin abracadabra. Pronunciation: /ˌæbɹəkəˈdæbɹə/ 1. A use of the mystical term ‘abracadabra’, supposed to work as part of a healing charm or a magical spell; any spell or incantation making use of the word. Example: Where is the necessity of this provision in the Constitution? […] Can anyone believe that we, by any amendments of ours, by any of our scribbling on that parchment, by any amulet, any legerdemain—charm—Abrecadabra—of ours can prevent our sons from doing the same thing—that is, from doing as they please, just as we are doing as we please? It is impossible. Who can bind posterity? Example: With a quiet bank holiday afternoon to fill, the Mill yesterday dug out the old magic kit, brushed the cobwebs off its top hat and practiced a few abracadabras. 2. Arcane and obscure language of occult rituals or mystical practices. Example: We made no comment but even Sandra herself could see how ridiculous all this abracadabra must sound to a listener. Example: Astrology was not specifically banned in the statutes against witchcraft, but so long as its technicalities remained abracadabra to the lay public there was always a risk that the practitioner might find himself arrested for sorcery. 3. Mumbo jumbo; obscure language or technicalities; jargon. Example: I don’t know all the theoretical abracadabra about how it works, I’m only its pilot.
Word: abracadabra Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin abracadabra. Pronunciation: /ˌæbɹəkəˈdæbɹə/ 1. Used to indicate that a magic trick or other illusion has been performed. Example: Next, the conjuror filled a glass with water from a big jug and then covered the tumbler with a cloth. "Abracadabra," he cried and crumpled the cloth.
Word: abradant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English abrade Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Latin -āns Old French -antbor. Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ant English -ant English abradant From abrade + -ant. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹeɪd.n̩t/ 1. A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc.; an abrasive.
Word: abradant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English abrade Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Latin -āns Old French -antbor. Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ant English -ant English abradant From abrade + -ant. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹeɪd.n̩t/ 1. Tending to abrade; causing irritation; abrasive.
Word: abrade Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin abrādō (“scrape off”), from ab (“from, away from”) + rādō (“scrape”). First attested in 1677. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹeɪd/ 1. To rub or wear off; erode. Labels: transitive Example: “Wildcat Ridge” is the name given to a rock about 3 feet (1 meter) wide that likely formed billions of years ago as mud and fine sand settled in an evaporating saltwater lake. On July 20, the rover abraded some of the surface of Wildcat Ridge so it could analyze the area with the instrument called Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals, or SHERLOC. 2. To wear down or exhaust, as a person; irritate. Labels: transitive 3. To irritate by rubbing; chafe. Labels: transitive 4. To cause the surface to become more rough. Labels: transitive 5. To undergo abrasion. Labels: intransitive
Word: abrade Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English abraiden. See abraid. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹeɪd/ 1. Obsolete spelling of abraid. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, transitive
Word: Abrahamic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew אַבְרָהָם (ʔaḇrɔhɔm)bor. Ancient Greek Ἀβρᾱᾱ́μ (Abrāā́m)bor. Latin Ābrahāmbor. Old English Abraham Middle English Abraham English Abraham Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English Abrahamic From Abraham + -ic. Pronunciation: /eɪ.bɹəˈhæm.ɪk/ 1. Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch. Labels: not-comparable Example: [T]he Noachic and Abrahamic churches are connected by Shem, and the other long-lived patriarchs, who existed before the apostasy of Noah's posterity, and survived it Example: Paul's faith was at this crisis in his spiritual illumination more Abrahamic than Christlike in its character. 2. Descended from the religious tradition of Abraham. Labels: not-comparable Example: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are all Abrahamic religions. Example: [The messianic] does not belong properly to any Abrahamic religion (even if I may here continue “entre nous” for essential reasons of language and of place, of culture, and of provisional rhetorical and historical strategy of which I will speak later, to give to it names inscribed by the Abrahamic religions).
Word: Abrahamic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew אַבְרָהָם (ʔaḇrɔhɔm)bor. Ancient Greek Ἀβρᾱᾱ́μ (Abrāā́m)bor. Latin Ābrahāmbor. Old English Abraham Middle English Abraham English Abraham Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English Abrahamic From Abraham + -ic. Pronunciation: /eɪ.bɹəˈhæm.ɪk/ 1. A member of an Abrahamic religion (usually Christians, Jews, and Muslims).
Word: Abrahamitic Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to the patriarch Abraham.
Word: Abraham man Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From patients claiming, genuinely or not, to be temporarily discharged from the Abraham ward at Bethlem Royal Hospital (also known as Bedlam), a psychiatric hospital in London, for the purpose of begging. Possibly an allusion to a story in Luke 16, in which the beggar Lazarus ends up in Abraham's bosom. First use appears c. 1561 in The Fraternity of Vagabonds (1561) by John Awdely. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.bɹəˌhæm mæn/, /ˈeɪ.bɹə.həm mæn/ 1. A mentally ill beggar. Labels: UK, obsolete 2. Any beggar who pretends to be ill, physically or mentally, to obtain alms. Labels: broadly Example: An Abraham man is he that walketh bare armed, and bare legged, and fayneth hymselfe mad, and caryeth a packe of wool, or a stycke with baken on it, or such lyke toy, and nameth himselfe poore Tom. Example: Of all the mad rascalls (that are of this wing) the Abraham-man is the most phantastick: The fellow (quoth this old Lady of the Lake unto me) that sat halfe naked (at table to day) from the girdle upward, is the best Abraham-man that ever came to my house and the notablest villaine: he sweares he hath bin in bedlam, and will talke frantickly of purpose[…]
Word: abraid Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English abraiden, abreiden (“to start up, awake, move, reproach”), from Old English ābreġdan (“to move quickly, vibrate, draw, draw from, remove, unsheath, wrench, pull out, withdraw, take away, draw back, free from, draw up, raise, lift up, start up”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + *bregdaną (“to move, swing”), of uncertain further origin. Equivalent to a- + braid. Related to Dutch breien (“to knit”), German bretten (“to knit”). Pronunciation: /əˈbɹeɪd/ 1. To wrench (something) out. Labels: obsolete, transitive 2. To unsheathe a blade, draw a weapon. Labels: obsolete, transitive 3. To wake up. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: She ferde as she had stert out of a sleep, / Til she out of hire mazednesse abreyde. Example: But when as I did out of ſleepe abray, / I found her not where I her left whyleare, […] 4. To spring, start, make a sudden movement. Labels: archaic, intransitive 5. To shout out. Labels: intransitive, obsolete, transitive 6. To rise in the stomach with nausea. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: abraid Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English abrede. More at abread. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹeɪd/ 1. Alternative form of abread. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: abranchial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a- + branchial. Pronunciation: /eɪˈbɹæŋ.ki.l̩/ 1. Lacking gills. Labels: not-comparable
Word: abranchiata Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + βράγχια (bránkhia, “gills”) + -ata. Pronunciation: /eɪˈbɹæŋ.kiˌɑ.tə/, /eɪˈbɹæŋ.kiˌeɪ.tə/ 1. An order of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration, usually including Oligochaeta. Labels: obsolete, uncountable 2. Any of a number of other groupings of gill-less animals. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: abranchiate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: * First attested in the 19th century. * a- (“not”) + branchiate (“gills”). Pronunciation: /eɪˈbɹæŋ.ki.ɪt/, /eɪˈbɹæŋ.kiˌeɪt/ 1. Without gills. Labels: not-comparable
Word: abranchiate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: * First attested in the 19th century. * a- (“not”) + branchiate (“gills”). Pronunciation: /eɪˈbɹæŋ.ki.ɪt/, /eɪˈbɹæŋ.kiˌeɪt/ 1. An organism that does not have gills.
Word: abrase Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin abrāsus, perfect passive participle of abrādō (“abrade”), from ab (“from, away from”) + rādō (“scrape”). Pronunciation: /əˈbɹeɪz/ 1. Rubbed smooth or blank. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: An abrase table.
Word: abrase Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin abrāsus, perfect passive participle of abrādō (“abrade”), from ab (“from, away from”) + rādō (“scrape”). Pronunciation: /əˈbɹeɪz/ 1. To wear down; rub clean; smoothen; abrade. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: abrasion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1656. From French abrasion (attested since 1611), from Medieval Latin abrasio (“a scraping”), from Latin abrādō (“scrape off”). See also abrade. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹeɪ.ʒən/ 1. The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The metal surface showed signs of abrasion after years of use. 2. An act of abrasiveness. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The substance thus rubbed off; debris. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 4. The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. An abraded, scraped, or worn area. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have been scraped or worn away. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The doctor cleaned the small skin abrasion on her knee. 7. The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: abrasive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin abrāsīvus. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹeɪ.sɪv/, /əˈbɹeɪ.zɪv/ 1. Producing abrasion; rough enough to wear away the outer surface. 2. Being rough and coarse in manner or disposition; overly aggressive and causing irritation. Example: An abrasive person can grate on one's sensibilities. Example: Despite her proper upbringing, we found her manners to be terribly abrasive.
Word: abrasive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin abrāsīvus. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹeɪ.sɪv/, /əˈbɹeɪ.zɪv/ 1. A hard inorganic substance or material consisting in powder or granule form such as sandpaper, pumice, or emery, used for cleaning, smoothing, or polishing. 2. Rock fragments, sand grains, mineral particles, used by water, wind, and ice to abrade a land surface.
Word: abraum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German abräumen (“to remove”), from ab (“from”) (Old High German aba (“away”)) + raum (“space”) (Old High German rūm). Pronunciation: /ˈɑˌpɹaʊm/ 1. A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium. Labels: uncountable
Word: abraxas Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Mistaken spelling of Abrasax. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹæk.səs/ 1. A transcription of Abrasax. Labels: historical
Word: abray Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from the preterite abraid, abrayde. More at abraid. 1. Obsolete form of abraid. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: abreast Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English abrest. By surface analysis, a- (“on, at”) + breast, meaning “breasts (chests) in line, side-by-side and exactly equally advanced”; roughly “breast-by-breast”. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹɛst/ 1. Side by side and facing forward. Labels: not-comparable Example: On Sunday afternoon it was as dark as night, with barely room for two riders abreast on a gradient that touches 20%. Example: The only path was narrow and rugged: two men could hardly walk abreast; 2. Alongside; parallel to. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable 3. Informed, well-informed, familiar, acquainted. Labels: not-comparable 4. Followed by of or with: up to a certain level or line; equally advanced. Labels: not-comparable Example: She believes it is important to keep abreast of new scientific developments. 5. Breast high (of an advancing wave). Labels: Scotland, not-comparable Example: The west wind blew a tempest, and, according to the common expression, brought in the water [of the Solway] three foot abreast. 6. Side by side; also, opposite; on a line with the vessel's beam. Labels: not-comparable 7. At the same time; simultaneously. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Abreast therewith began a convocation.
Word: abreast Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English abrest. By surface analysis, a- (“on, at”) + breast, meaning “breasts (chests) in line, side-by-side and exactly equally advanced”; roughly “breast-by-breast”. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹɛst/ 1. Side by side, facing forward. Labels: not-comparable 2. Alongside; parallel to. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable 3. Informed, well-informed, familiar, acquainted. Labels: not-comparable 4. Up to a certain level or line; equally advanced Labels: not-comparable Example: to keep abreast of [or with] the present state of science Example: Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace. 5. Side by side; also, opposite; over against; on a line with the vessel's beam. Labels: not-comparable Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:abreast.
Word: abreast Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From Middle English abrest. By surface analysis, a- (“on, at”) + breast, meaning “breasts (chests) in line, side-by-side and exactly equally advanced”; roughly “breast-by-breast”. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹɛst/ 1. Abreast of; alongside. Example: This ship sank abreast the island.
Word: abrenounce Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin abrenunciare, from Latin ab- (“from”) + renuntio (“revoke”). Pronunciation: /ˌæbɹiˈnaʊnts/ 1. To renounce; to contradict. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Many of theſe might ſeem ingrate and unkind children, that vvill no better acknovvledge and recogniſe their parents in vvords and outvvard pretence, but abrenounce and caſt them off, as though they hated them as dogs and ſerpents.
Word: abrenunciation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From either Old French abrenonciation or from Late Latin abrenuntiatio, from Late Latin abrenuntiatiō, from ab + renuntiatiō (“to renounce”). * See abrenounce. Pronunciation: /ˌæb.ɹi.nʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃn̩/ 1. Absolute renunciation; repudiation; retraction. Labels: archaic Example: an abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed
Word: abreption Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin abreptus, perfect passive participle of abripiō (“snatch away”); from ab (“away”) + rapiō (“snatch”). 1. A snatching away. Labels: archaic Example: Who now and then are under an error, having failings, imperfections, and shortnesses […] You never find these men are called Sinners; neither are the infirmities of the regenerate, the sincere and upright-hearted called Sins, such as these sudden incursions and abreptions, when their thoughts are snatched away from them, either in praying or hearing.
Word: abreuvoir Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French abreuvoir (“a watering place”). Pronunciation: /əbɹuːˈvwɑː(ɹ)/ 1. A cold water drinking fountain (for people) typically found in a public location; more generally, any fountain or water source (including for animals like birds, horses etc). 2. The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar. Labels: obsolete
Word: abricock Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of apricot. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: abridge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English abreggen, abregge, abrigge (“curtail, lessen”), from Old French abregier, abreger, from Late Latin abbreviō, abbreviāre (“make brief”). Doublet of abbreviate. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹɪd͡ʒ/ 1. To deprive; to cut off. Labels: archaic, transitive 2. To debar from. Labels: archaic, rare, transitive 3. To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent. Labels: transitive Example: She retired her self to Sebaste, and abridged her train from State to necessity. Example: The bridegroom, perceiving his condition, abridged the visit […] 4. To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense. Labels: transitive Example: It was still necessary for the man who had been formerly saluted by the highest authority as dictator of the English language to supply his wants by constant toil. He abridged his Dictionary. He proposed to bring out an edition of Shakespeare by subscription, and many subscribers sent in their names and laid down their money; but he soon found the task so little to his taste that he turned to more attractive employments. Example: Such an episode in the Island's grand naval story her naval historians naturally abridge; one of them (G.P.R. James) candidly acknowledging that fain would he pass it over did not "impartiality forbid fastidiousness." 5. Cut short; truncate. Labels: transitive 6. To curtail. Labels: transitive Example: He had his rights abridged by the crooked sheriff.
Word: abridger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English abridge Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English abridger From abridge + -er. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹɪ.d͡ʒɚ/ 1. One who abridges, a person who shortens written works. Example: […] while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens—there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them. Example: I am an abridger. When I tell people, at a party for instance, that I am an abridger, their faces cloud with confusion and I always have to explain. What I do is take the written work of other people and compress it.
Word: abridgment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1494. From Middle English abrygement, from Middle French abrégement. Equivalent to abridge + -ment. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹɪd͡ʒ.mənt/ 1. The act of abridging; reduction or deprivation Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses 2. The state of being abridged or lessened. Labels: US, countable, uncountable 3. An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: The article which embodied my researches having proved somewhat too long for its purpose, an abridgment of it only was inserted in the Encyclopædia. Example: When the goal is simply to be as faithful as possible to the material—as if a movie were a marriage, and a rights contract the vow—the best result is a skillful abridgment, one that hits all the important marks without losing anything egregious. 4. That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: What abridgment have you for this evening? What masque? what music? 5. Any of various brief statements of case law made before modern reporting of legal cases. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable 6. The leaving out of certain portions of a plaintiff's demand, the writ still holding good for the remainder. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: abroach Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English abroche, from Norman, from Old French abroche (“to spigot”). Equivalent to a- + broach. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹoʊt͡ʃ/ 1. To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: on the crosse a pike / Did set again abroach
Word: abroach Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English abroche, from Norman, from Old French abroche (“to spigot”). Equivalent to a- + broach. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹoʊt͡ʃ/ 1. Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: 1709, Joseph Addison, The Tatler, No. 146, 16 March, 1709, Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1754, p. 115, Jupiter, in the beginning of his reign, finding the world much more innocent than it is in this iron age, poured very plentifully out of the tun that stood at his right hand; but as mankind degenerated, and became unworthy of his blessings, he set abroach the other vessel, that filled the world with pain and poverty […] Example: […] hogsheads of ale were set abroach, to be drained at the freedom of all comers. 2. In a state to be diffused or propagated. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: I doe the wrong, and first began to braule / The secret mischiefes that I set abroach, / I lay vnto the grieuous charge of others: […] Example: 1761, George Colman, The Genius, No. 6, 20 August, 1761, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, Volume 1, p. 64, When a person of high rank is destined for the victim, an emissary is dispatched to set the story abroach at some obscure coffee-house in the city, whence it speedily marches to its head quarters near the court:
Word: abroach Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English abroche, from Norman, from Old French abroche (“to spigot”). Equivalent to a- + broach. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹoʊt͡ʃ/ 1. Tapped; broached. Labels: not-comparable 2. Astir; moving about. Labels: not-comparable
Word: abroad Part of Speech: adv Etymology: First attested in mid 13th century. From Middle English abrood (“broadly widely scattered”), from a- (“on, in”) + brood (“broad”). Equivalent to a- + broad. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹɔːd/, /əˈbɹoːd/, /əˈbɹɔd/, /əˈbɹɑd/, /əˈbɾɔd/ 1. Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries. Labels: not-comparable, postpositional Example: A closer look at North Korean history reveals what Pyongyang’s leaders really want their near-farcical belligerence to achieve — a reminder to the world that North Korea exists, and an impression abroad that its leaders are irrational and unpredictable. Example: Another prince, deposed by the Revolution, was living abroad. 2. At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space. Labels: dated, not-comparable, postpositional Example: A tree spreads its branches abroad. Example: "Faither!" I cried as I undid the bolt and pushed the leaves of the door abroad, "Faither, ye are welcome hame!" 3. Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode. Labels: dated, not-comparable, postpositional Example: I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad. Example: Again: The lonely fox roams far abroad, / On ſecret rapine bent and midnight fraud; […] 4. Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; moving without restriction. Labels: dated, not-comparable, postpositional Example: This Peece, or Schisme of Suicisme, and Selfishnesse, hath spawned most of the Heresies and Schismes, that are abroad in the World. Example: But he went out, and beganne to publish it much, and to blase abroad the matter: insomuch that Iesus could no more openly enter into the citie, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from euery quarter. 5. Not on target; astray; in error; confused; dazed. Labels: not-comparable, postpositional 6. Played elsewhere than one's home grounds. Labels: not-comparable, postpositional
Word: abroad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in mid 13th century. From Middle English abrood (“broadly widely scattered”), from a- (“on, in”) + brood (“broad”). Equivalent to a- + broad. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹɔːd/, /əˈbɹoːd/, /əˈbɹɔd/, /əˈbɹɑd/, /əˈbɾɔd/ 1. Countries or lands abroad. Labels: Scotland, postpositional, rare Example: I hate abroad, abroad’s bloody. Example: I am not, however, a xenophobe: obviously, abroad has some good ideas—arranged marriages, violent revolutions and so on.
Word: abroad Part of Speech: prep Etymology: First attested in mid 13th century. From Middle English abrood (“broadly widely scattered”), from a- (“on, in”) + brood (“broad”). Equivalent to a- + broad. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹɔːd/, /əˈbɹoːd/, /əˈbɹɔd/, /əˈbɹɑd/, /əˈbɾɔd/ 1. Throughout, over. Labels: postpositional
Word: abroad Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in mid 13th century. From Middle English abrood (“broadly widely scattered”), from a- (“on, in”) + brood (“broad”). Equivalent to a- + broad. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹɔːd/, /əˈbɹoːd/, /əˈbɹɔd/, /əˈbɹɑd/, /əˈbɾɔd/ 1. International. Labels: nonstandard, not-comparable, postpositional Example: [...] much shorter than an abroad trip at eight nights although the average spending per person night is only slightly less on a US trip than an abroad trip, $37 compared with $41. Around half of Canadian trips to other countries are to Europe. Example: [...] an abroad trip was going to raise some heat in the town, amongst our relatives. My family has always been the pioneers of middle-classism. My mother has still never owned a diamond.
Word: abrogable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin abrogō. Equivalent to abrogate + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈæb.ɹə.ɡə.bl̩/ 1. capable of being abrogated.
Word: abrogate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin abder. Latin ab- Latin rogō Latin abrogō Latin abrogātusder. Middle English abrogat English abrogate First attested in 1526, from Middle English abrogat (“abolished”), from Latin abrogātus, perfect passive participle of abrogō (“repeal”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), formed from ab (“away”) + rogō (“ask, inquire, propose”). See rogation. Pronunciation: /ˈæb.ɹəʊ.ɡeɪt/, /ˈæ.bɹə.ɡeɪt/, /ˈæb.ɹoʊˌɡeɪt/, /ˈæb.ɹəˌɡeɪt/ 1. To annul (as a law, decree, ordinance, etc.) by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or their successor; to repeal. Labels: transitive Example: But let us look a little further, and see whether the New Testament abrogates what we see so frequently used in the Old. Example: Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they cannot alter or abrogate. 2. To put an end to; to do away with. Labels: transitive 3. To block a process or function. Labels: transitive
Word: abrogate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin abder. Latin ab- Latin rogō Latin abrogō Latin abrogātusder. Middle English abrogat English abrogate First attested in 1526, from Middle English abrogat (“abolished”), from Latin abrogātus, perfect passive participle of abrogō (“repeal”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), formed from ab (“away”) + rogō (“ask, inquire, propose”). See rogation. Pronunciation: /ˈæ.bɹə.ɡət/, /ˈæb.ɹəˌɡət/ 1. Abrogated; abolished. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes incandesced by the visionary light of a massive rapacity, wave on wave of the violent and insane, their brains stoked with spoorless analogues of all that was, lean aryans with their abrogate semitic chapbook reenacting the dramas and parables therein and mindless and pale with a longing that nothing save dark's total restitution could appease.
Word: abrogation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1535. From Middle French abrogation, from Latin abrogātiō (“repealed”), from abrogo, from ab (“from”) + rogo (“ask, inquire”). By surface analysis, ab- + Latin rog- + -ate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌæb.ɹəˈɡeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/, /ˌæb.ɹəˈɡæɪ.ʃ(ə)n/ 1. The act of abrogating. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] I consider the sudden and violent abrogation of the office of Master in Chancery, by the new Constitution, as a –– premature act; inasmuch as I had counted on a life-lease of the profits, whereas I only received those of a few short years. 2. The act of abrogating. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: abrogative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin abder. Latin ab- Latin rogō Latin abrogō Latin abrogātusder. Middle English abrogat English abrogate Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English abrogative From abrogate + -ive. 1. Tending or designed to abrogate. Example: an abrogative law
Word: abrogator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin abder. Latin ab- Latin rogō Latin abrogō Latin abrogātusder. Middle English abrogat English abrogate Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our ▲ Latin -torlbor. English -or English abrogator From abrogate + -or. Pronunciation: /ˈæb.ɹəˌɡeɪ.tɚ/ 1. One who abrogates.
Word: abrood Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English abrod, equivalent to a- + brood. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹud/ 1. Upon a brood; on a hatch. Labels: obsolete Example: The word in the original (as St. Hierom tells us from the Hebrew traditions) implies, that the Spirit of God sat abrood upon the whole rude mass, as birds upon their eggs, […] 2. Mischief. Labels: figuratively
Word: abrood Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English abrod, equivalent to a- + brood. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹud/ 1. Upon a brood; hatching eggs. Labels: obsolete 2. Mischief. Labels: figuratively
Word: abrook Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From a- + brook (“to endure”). Compare Old English ābrūcan (“to eat”). Pronunciation: /əˈbɹʊk/ 1. To brook; to endure. Example: […] / Uneath may she endure the flinty streets, / To tread them with her tender-feeling feet. / Sweet Nell, ill can thy noble mind abrook / The abject people gazing on thy face / With envious looks, laughing at thy shame, / […]
Word: abrupt Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in 1583. Borrowed from Latin abruptus (“broken off”), perfect passive participle of abrumpō (“break off”), formed from ab (“from, away from”) + rumpō (“to break”). Pronunciation: /əˈbɹʌpt/, /æbˈɹʌpt/ 1. Broken away (from restraint). Labels: obsolete, rare 2. Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious. Example: The party came to an abrupt end when the parents of our host arrived. Example: The cause of your abrupt departure. 3. Curt in manner. Example: With no great disparity between them in point of years, they were, in every other respect, as unlike and far removed from each other as two men could well be. The one was soft-spoken, delicately made, precise, and elegant; the other, a burly square-built man, negligently dressed, rough and abrupt in manner, stern, and, in his present mood, forbidding both in look and speech. 4. Having sudden transitions from one subject or state to another; unconnected; disjointed. Example: The abrupt style, which hath many breaches. 5. Broken off. Labels: obsolete 6. Extremely steep or craggy as if broken up; precipitous. Example: The mazy-running brook Forms a deep pool; this bank abrupt and high. Example: To the north the towering scree-strewn slopes of Saddleback begin to draw nearer as we start the abrupt descent towards Keswick. 7. Suddenly terminating, as if cut off; truncate. Example: Root oblong, blackish, nearly the thickness of the little finger, often growing obliquely; abrupt at the lower end, so as to appear as if bitten off, furnished with long whitish fibres.
Word: abrupt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1583. Borrowed from Latin abruptus (“broken off”), perfect passive participle of abrumpō (“break off”), formed from ab (“from, away from”) + rumpō (“to break”). Pronunciation: /əˈbɹʌpt/, /æbˈɹʌpt/ 1. To tear off or asunder. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Till death abrupts them. 2. To interrupt suddenly.
Word: abrupt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1583. Borrowed from Latin abruptus (“broken off”), perfect passive participle of abrumpō (“break off”), formed from ab (“from, away from”) + rumpō (“to break”). Pronunciation: /əˈbɹʌpt/, /æbˈɹʌpt/ 1. Something which is abrupt; an abyss. Labels: poetic Example: Over the vast abrupt.
Word: abruption Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From abrupt + -ion. From Latin abruptio, from abrumpo (“to break off”). Pronunciation: /əˈbɹʌp.ʃn̩/ 1. A sudden termination or interruption. Labels: archaic 2. A sudden breaking off or breaking away; a violent separation of bodies. Example: By this abruption posterity lost more instruction than delight. Example: After a startling abruption and a slow recovery, the canonic process is resumed at [7], with a whole slew of redundant entries on the last phrase.
Word: abruptly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Latin abrumpō Latin abruptusbor. English abrupt Middle English -ly English -ly English abruptly From abrupt + -ly. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹʌp.li/, /əˈbɹʌpt.li/ 1. In an abrupt manner; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; suddenly; precipitously. Example: The professor stopped her lecture abruptly when she noticed someone fall off their seat. Example: After weeks of speculation and intracoalitional debate, the text of the compromise was released on Sept. 21. By Sept. 27, the coalition had fallen apart, with Manchin somewhat abruptly pulling what had become known as the side deal from a must-pass budget resolution.
Word: abruptness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin abrumpō Latin abruptusbor. English abrupt Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English abruptness From abrupt + -ness. Pronunciation: /əˈbɹʌp.nəs/, /əˈbɹʌpt.nəs/ 1. The state of being abrupt or broken Labels: uncountable, usually 2. Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: So be neither diffuse with damp and slippery words nor blunt the edge of your discourse by abruptness of style. Study in particular the purest period of style, that those who move only to Ciceronian rhythm call you not a Celt.
Word: abscess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin abscessus (“a going away; gathering of humors, abscess”), from abscēdō (“go away, depart”), from abs (“away from”) + cēdō (“go”). See cede. Pronunciation: /ˈæbsɛs/, /ˈæbsɪs/ 1. A cavity caused by tissue destruction, usually because of infection, filled with pus and surrounded by inflamed tissue.
Word: abscess Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin abscessus (“a going away; gathering of humors, abscess”), from abscēdō (“go away, depart”), from abs (“away from”) + cēdō (“go”). See cede. Pronunciation: /ˈæbsɛs/, /ˈæbsɪs/ 1. To form a pus-filled cavity, typically from an infection. Labels: intransitive
Word: abscession Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin abscessio (“a separation”); from abscedere. See abscess. 1. A separating; a removal; a going away. Labels: rare Example: […] neither justly excommunicated out of that particular Church, to which eh was orderly joyned, not excommunicating himself by voluntary Schisme, declared abscession, separation, or Apostasie. Example: I have seen many in the final stage of long illnesses affected by our disease. For Nature has here wished, as it were, in the manner of a crisis in the outer parts of the body to attempt an "abscession" in the sense of an outflow […] 2. An abscess. Labels: obsolete Example: The abscession being already come to suppuration […]
Word: abscind Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin abscindere (“cut off”), from ab (“from, away from”) + scindō (“cut, rend”). Pronunciation: /əbˈsɪnd/, /æbˈsɪnd/ 1. To cut off. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Two syllables... abscinded from the rest.
Word: abscision Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin abscisiō. Pronunciation: /æbˈsɪ.ʒn̩/ 1. A cutting away. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: absciss Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin abscissa, feminine of abscissus, perfect passive participle of abscindō (“cut asunder”). Pronunciation: /ˈæb.sɪs/ 1. Alternative form of abscissa Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: absciss Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from abscission. Pronunciation: /əbˈsɪs/, /æbˈsɪs/ 1. To cut off by abscission. Labels: transitive 2. To separate (as a leaf from a twig) by abscission. Labels: intransitive
Word: abscissa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By ellipsis from Latin [linea] abscissa, feminine of abscissus, perfect passive participle of abscindō (“cut off”). See abscind. Pronunciation: /æbˈsɪs.ə/ 1. The first of the two terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of fixed rectilinear coordinate (Cartesian coordinate) axes. Example: The point (3,2) has 3 as its abscissa and 2 as its ordinate. 2. The horizontal line representing an axis of a Cartesian coordinate system, on which the abscissa (sense above) is shown.
Word: Traditional Chinese Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /tɹəˈdɪʃənəl tʃaɪˈniːz/ 1. Chinese written using the traditional form of Chinese characters, as opposed to Simplified Chinese (introduced by the PRC as script reform).
Word: Simplified Chinese Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmplɪfaɪd tʃaɪˈniːz/, /ˈsɪmpləfaɪd tʃaɪˈniːz/ 1. Chinese written using the forms of Chinese characters introduced by the People's Republic of China as script reform. The characters are simplified (with a reduced number of strokes, etc.) compared to their pre-reform shapes.
Word: on Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-der. Proto-Germanic *an Proto-West Germanic *ana Old English on Middle English on English on From Middle English on, from Old English on, an (“on, upon, onto, in, into”), from Proto-West Germanic *ana, from Proto-Germanic *ana (“on, at”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂en- (“on, onto”). Cognates Cognate with Yola a, an, ana, on (“on”), Saterland Frisian an (“on; at”), West Frisian oan (“on; to, towards”), Cimbrian aan, å (“on, onto”), Dutch aan (“on; at”), Low German an (“on; at, to”), German an (“at, in; on”), Luxembourgish un (“on; at, to”), Yiddish אָן (on, “on, onward”), Danish, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish å (“on”), Elfdalian ą̊ (“on”), Faroese and Icelandic á (“in; on”), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰 (ana, “at, on”); also Umbrian 𐌀𐌌- (am-), 𐌀𐌍- (an-, “up, upon”), Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “on, upon”) (whence Greek ανά (aná, “by, through, per”)), Albanian në (“in; on”), Latvian no (“from; out of; for; of; with”), Lithuanian nuo (“from, off; for, of”), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian на (na, “on”), Czech, Polish, Slovak, and Slovene na (“on”), Serbo-Croatian на, na (“on”), Old Armenian ան- (an-, “at, on, unto”); and from Old Norse upp á: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Swedish på (“on”), Norwegian Nynorsk paa, på (“on”), see upon. Pronunciation: /ɒn/, /ɔn/, /ɑn/, [ɒːn ~ ɔːn], /än/ 1. To an operating state. Labels: not-comparable Example: turn the television on 2. So as to cover or be fitted. Labels: not-comparable Example: The lid wasn't screwed on properly. Example: Put on your hat and gloves. 3. Along, forwards (continuing an action), onwards. Labels: not-comparable Example: The policeman moved the tramp on. Example: Drive on past the railway station. 4. In continuation, at length. Labels: not-comparable Example: and so on Example: He rambled on and on. 5. Later. Labels: not-comparable Example: Ten years on, nothing had changed in the village. 6. Of betting odds, denoting a better-than-even chance. See also odds-on. Labels: not-comparable Example: That horse is twenty-to-one on, so you need to stake twenty pounds just to win one pound. 7. Of a ball, into a pottable position. Labels: not-comparable Example: The black was previously unavailable, but in potting that red, he's now pushed the black on.
Word: on Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-der. Proto-Germanic *an Proto-West Germanic *ana Old English on Middle English on English on From Middle English on, from Old English on, an (“on, upon, onto, in, into”), from Proto-West Germanic *ana, from Proto-Germanic *ana (“on, at”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂en- (“on, onto”). Cognates Cognate with Yola a, an, ana, on (“on”), Saterland Frisian an (“on; at”), West Frisian oan (“on; to, towards”), Cimbrian aan, å (“on, onto”), Dutch aan (“on; at”), Low German an (“on; at, to”), German an (“at, in; on”), Luxembourgish un (“on; at, to”), Yiddish אָן (on, “on, onward”), Danish, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish å (“on”), Elfdalian ą̊ (“on”), Faroese and Icelandic á (“in; on”), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌰 (ana, “at, on”); also Umbrian 𐌀𐌌- (am-), 𐌀𐌍- (an-, “up, upon”), Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “on, upon”) (whence Greek ανά (aná, “by, through, per”)), Albanian në (“in; on”), Latvian no (“from; out of; for; of; with”), Lithuanian nuo (“from, off; for, of”), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian на (na, “on”), Czech, Polish, Slovak, and Slovene na (“on”), Serbo-Croatian на, na (“on”), Old Armenian ան- (an-, “at, on, unto”); and from Old Norse upp á: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Swedish på (“on”), Norwegian Nynorsk paa, på (“on”), see upon. Pronunciation: /ɒn/, /ɔn/, /ɑn/, [ɒːn ~ ɔːn], /än/ 1. To switch on. Labels: Malaysia, Nigeria, Philippines, Singapore, colloquial, transitive Example: Can you on the light?
Word: on Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From Old Norse ón, án (“without”), from Proto-Germanic *ēnu, *ēno, *ino (“without”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḗnu (“without”). Cognate with North Frisian on (“without”), Middle Dutch an, on (“without”), Middle Low German āne (“without”), German ohne (“without”), Gothic 𐌹𐌽𐌿 (inu, “without, except”). Unlikely to be related to Ancient Greek ἄνευ (áneu, “without”), which is likely akin to Proto-Germanic *sundraz instead (whence sunder). Pronunciation: /ɒn/, /ɔn/, /ɑn/, [ɒːn ~ ɔːn], /än/ 1. Without. Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal
Word: on Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese 音読み (on'yomi, literally “sound reading”). Pronunciation: /ɒn/, /ɔn/, /ɑn/, [ɒːn ~ ɔːn], /än/ 1. In the Japanese language, a pronunciation, or reading, of a kanji character that was originally based on the character's pronunciation in Chinese, contrasted with kun. Example: Most kanji have two kinds of reading, called "on" and "kun".
Word: kun Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese 訓読み (kun'yomi), literally "meaning reading" (i.e. pronunciation based on meaning). 1. In the Japanese language, the pronunciation, or reading, of a kanji character as a native Japanese word that means what the character represents, contrasted with on. Labels: uncountable Example: Most kanji have two kinds of reading, called "on" and "kun".
Word: abscission Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin abscissiō, from abscindō (“to cut, to tear”). Pronunciation: /æbˈsɪ.ʃn̩/, /æbˈsɪ.ʒn̩/ 1. The act or process of cutting off. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Not to be cured without the abscission of a member. 2. The state of being cut off. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 3. A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly Labels: countable, rhetoric, uncountable 4. The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: abscond Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin abder. Latin abs- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tder. Proto-Italic *-ðō Latin -dō Latin condō Latin abscondōder. Middle French abscondrebor. ▲ Latin abscondōbor. English abscond Either borrowed from Middle French abscondre or directly from Latin abscondō (“hide”); formed from abs, ab (“away”) + condō (“put together, store”), from con- (“together”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”). * Cognate with sconce (“a type of light fixture”). Pronunciation: /əbˈskɒnd/, /əbˈskɑnd/ 1. To flee, often secretly; to steal away. Labels: intransitive Example: The thieves absconded with our property. Example: […] that very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond at the risk of stripes and of death. 2. To flee, often secretly; to steal away. Labels: intransitive Example: I've often speculated why you don't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the Romantic in me. Example: Andy did break his bargain, lurked in the neighborhood a few days, and then, being pursued by the sheriff, absconded to parts unknown. 3. To flee, often secretly; to steal away. Labels: intransitive Example: [European honey bees] raise large colonies, hoard large quantities of honey, are more gentle than other species and almost never abscond. 4. To hide, to be in hiding or concealment. Labels: intransitive Example: the Marmotto, […] which absconds all Winter doth […] live upon its own Fat. 5. To evade, to hide or flee from. Labels: transitive, uncommon Example: The captain absconded his responsibility. Example: If the distress situation is solved successfully, the anonymous shipowner will reap the commercial benefit, if the situation ends in disaster, the shipowner will hide behind an anonymous post box in a foreign country and will abscond responsibility. 6. To conceal; to take away. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: for having applied to the Side of the Head any thin black Body, such as the Brim of a Hat, so as it may abscond the Objects that are upon that Side Example: They examined every prisoner by himself (who were in all about two hundred and fifty persons) where they had absconded the rest of their goods