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1. † abate, v.3 View full entry a1475
...intr. Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to beat or flap the wings, to flutter. Cf. bate...
2. abbreviate, v. View full entry ?a1475
...trans. To shorten (a text, speech, etc.) whilst retaining the sense and substance; to edit into a shorter form, esp. by omitting the less important passages; to condense, summarize, abridge....
3. abduce, v. View full entry 1537
...trans. = abduct2a. Now chiefly U.S....
4. abduct, v. View full entry 1765
...trans.Anat. and Zool. To draw (a part of the body) away from the median plane or midline, or away from another part. Contrasted with adduct. Cf....
5. aberrate, v. View full entry 1749
...intr. To go astray; to deviate from a usual course or mode of behaviour. Also: to produce aberration....
6. † abirritate, v. View full entry 1882
...trans. To diminish the irritability of; to devitalize. Cf. abirritation...
7. abject, v. View full entry ?c1425
...trans. To cast off or away; to cast out, exclude, reject, esp. as inferior, unworthy, or repugnant....
8. abjoint, v. View full entry 1887
...trans. To separate (a spore, conidium, etc.) from the hypha of a fungus by the formation of a septum. Cf. abjunction Usu. in pass....
9. ablate, v. View full entry a1475
...trans. To take away, remove. Also intr. Now rare....
10. abligate, v. View full entry 1615
...To bind; to tie up. Obs....
11. † ablow, v. View full entry eOE
...intr. To blow or breathe on or upon....
12. abmigrate, v. View full entry 1929
...intr. Of a bird: to migrate from the region where it was born and where it wintered to the distant summer breeding area of others of its species....
13. 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...
14. † about, v.2 View full entry 1725
...intr. Of a tree: to bud. Of a tumour or swelling: to grow, to develop. Only as present or past participle....
15. abraid, v.1 View full entry OE
...trans. To move (something) suddenly or violently, to wrench, snatch; to pull out; to draw (a sword). Also fig.Obs....
16. abreact, v. View full entry 1909
...trans. To subject (a psychic trauma) to abreaction; to treat by abreaction....
17. abrogate, v. View full entry ?1520
...trans. To repeal (a law, established usage, etc.); to abolish authoritatively or formally; to annul, to cancel....
18. abscind, v. View full entry 1610
...trans. To cut off; to separate, detach. Now rare and literary....
19. abscise, v. View full entry a1500
...trans. Chiefly Surg. To cut off or away; to perform abscission on. Cf. abscission2....
20. absciss, v. View full entry 1639
...trans.Surg. To cut off or away; = abscise1. Cf. abscission1. rare....
