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  • English Word Abuser Definition One who abuses [in the various senses of the verb].
  • English Word Abusing Definition of Abuse
  • English Word Abusion Definition Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat.
  • English Word Abusive Definition Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.
  • English Word Abusive Definition Given to misusing; also, full of abuses.
  • English Word Abusive Definition Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow.
  • English Word Abusive Definition Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
  • English Word Abusive Definition Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating.
  • English Word Abusively Definition In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.
  • English Word Abusiveness Definition The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person.
  • English Word Abut Definition To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.
  • English Word Abutilon Definition A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow.
  • English Word Abutment Definition State of abutting.
  • English Word Abutment Definition That on or against which a body abuts or presses
  • English Word Abutment Definition The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut.
  • English Word Abutment Definition A fixed point or surface from which resistance or reaction is obtained, as the cylinder head of a steam engine, the fulcrum of a lever, etc.
  • English Word Abutment Definition In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil.
  • English Word Abuttal Definition The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland.
  • English Word Abutted Definition of Abut
  • English Word Abutter Definition One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.
  • English Word Abutting Definition of Abut
  • English Word Abuzz Definition In a buzz; buzzing.
  • English Word Aby Definition Alt. of Abye
  • English Word Abye Definition To pay for; to suffer for; to atone for; to make amends for; to give satisfaction.
  • English Word Abye Definition To endure; to abide.
  • English Word Abyme Definition A abyss.
  • English Word Abysm Definition An abyss; a gulf.
  • English Word Abysmal Definition Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound.
  • English Word Abysmally Definition To a fathomless depth; profoundly.
  • English Word Abyss Definition A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit.