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Abscise
- verb - remove or separate by abscission
- shed flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of a scar tissue
Abseils
- 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"
Abusing
- verb - change the inherent purpose or function of something; "Don't abuse the system"; "The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers"
- treat badly; "This boss abuses his workers"; "She is always stepping on others to get ahead"
- use foul or abusive language towards; "The actress abused the policeman who gave her a parking ticket"; "The angry mother shouted at the teacher"
- use wrongly or improperly or excessively; "Her husband often abuses alcohol"; "while she was pregnant, she abused drugs"
Abusion
- - Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat.
Abusive
- adjective - characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment; "abusive punishment"; "argued...that foster homes are abusive"
- expressing offensive reproach
Acadian
- noun - an early French settler in the Maritimes