ABS

/ĂŚbz/
5
Scrabble
6
WWF
A(1) B(3) S(1)
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Definition

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

Source: Wiktionary

Anagrams of ABS

BAS

Hooks

Front hooks: C-ABS D-ABS F-ABS G-ABS J-ABS K-ABS L-ABS N-ABS S-ABS T-ABS W-ABS

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