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    ABUT

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

    Irregular inflected forms: abutted  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, abutting  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they abut  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it abuts  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: abutted  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: abutted  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: abutting  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Lie adjacent to another or share a boundaryplay

    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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