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1. † abail, v.2 View full entry 1513
...trans. To reach, get to....
2. abalienate, v. View full entry a1555
...trans. To estrange or alienate in feeling; to cause to feel removed or distant. Also: to remove, distance. Freq. with from. Now rare....
3. aband, v. View full entry 1574
...trans. To banish. Obs....
4. † abandonate, v. View full entry ?1561
...trans. = abandon (in various senses). Also refl....
5. † abar, v. View full entry a1504
...trans. To bar, debar. Chiefly with from....
6. † abastard, v. View full entry 1573
...trans. To corrupt, debase, make degenerate....
7. abastardize, v. View full entry 1574
...trans. To declare or render illegitimate; (hence) to make corrupt or degenerate; to debase. Cf. bastardize...
8. abdicate, v. View full entry 1532
...trans. To proclaim or declare to be no longer one's own; to disown, cast off; esp. to disown or disinherit a child. Obs. (hist. in...
9. abduce, v. View full entry 1537
...trans. = abduct2a. Now chiefly U.S....
10. aberr, v. View full entry c1540
...intr. To go astray, diverge from a recognized path. Chiefly fig. and in figurative contexts....
11. abnegate, v. View full entry 1543
...trans. To deny oneself (something valuable, cherished, or desired); to renounce or surrender (a right or privilege)....
12. abode, v. View full entry 1573
...trans. To presage, foretell (usually something bad). Cf. bode3, forebode1. Now rare....
13. abominate, v. View full entry 1597
...trans. To feel extreme disgust and hatred towards; to regard with intense aversion; to abhor, loathe....
14. † abomine, v. View full entry c1500
...trans. = abominate1....
15. † aborder, v. View full entry 1566
...intr. To be neighbouring or contiguous, to border....
16. abort, v. View full entry 1540
...intr. Of a pregnant woman or animal: to expel an embryo or fetus from the uterus, esp. before it is viable; to suffer a spontaneous abortion or miscarriage. Cf. miscarry...
17. abrenounce, v. View full entry 1537
...trans. To renounce completely, to repudiate....
18. abrogate, v. View full entry ?1520
...trans. To repeal (a law, established usage, etc.); to abolish authoritatively or formally; to annul, to cancel....
19. † abrook, v. View full entry 1594
...trans. To endure, tolerate, abide. Cf. brook3....
20. † absconce, v.1 View full entry 1570
...trans. To hide, conceal....
