ABS
/ĂŚbz/
5
Scrabble
6
WWF
A(1) B(3) S(1)
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Definition
/ĂŚbz/
noun
- Abdominal muscle.
noun
- An abscess caused by injecting an illegal drug, usually heroin.
verb
- To abseil.
noun
- The early stages of; the beginning process; the start.
verb
- (now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
- To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
- To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
- To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
- To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
noun
- Initialism of absolute value function.
noun
- Thermodynamic temperature; temperature measured on an absolute scale such as the Kelvin scale.
adjective
- Derived; extracted.
- Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
Source: Wiktionary