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Abraid
- - To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out.
Abroad
- adjective - far away from home or one's usual surroundings; "looking afield for new lands to conquer"- R.A.Hall
- in a foreign country; "markets abroad"; "overseas markets"
- in a place across an ocean
- to or in a foreign country; "they had never travelled abroad"
Abrood
- - In the act of brooding.
Abrupt
- adjective - curt
- exceedingly sudden and unexpected; "came to an abrupt stop"; "an abrupt change in the weather"
- extremely steep; "an abrupt canyon"; "the precipitous rapids of the upper river"; "the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"; "a sharp drop"
- marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions; "abrupt prose"
- surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner; "an abrupt reply"
Abseil
- noun - (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body
- lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside; "The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous"; "You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing"
Absent
- adjective - go away or leave; "He absented himself"
- lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"
- nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking"
- not being in a specified place
Absist
- - To stand apart from; top leave off; to desist.
Absorb
- verb - assimilate or take in; "The immigrants were quickly absorbed into society"
- become imbued; "The liquids, light, and gases absorb"
- cause to become one with; "The sales tax is absorbed into the state income tax"
- consume all of one's attention or time; "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely"
- devote (oneself) fully to; "He immersed himself into his studies"
- Soak up, incorporate.
- suck or take up or in; "A black star absorbs all matter"
- take in, also metaphorically; "The sponge absorbs water well"; "She drew strength from the minister's words"
- take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe"
- take up, as of debts or payments; "absorb the costs for something"