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Abduce
- verb - advance evidence for
Abduct
- verb - pull away from the body; "this muscle abducts"
- take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; "The industrialist's son was kidnapped"
Abjure
- verb - formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"
Ablude
- - To be unlike; to differ.
Abound
- verb - be abundant or plentiful; exist in large quantities
- be in a state of movement or action; "The room abounded with screaming children"; "The garden bristled with toddlers"
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"
Absume
- - To consume gradually; to waste away.
Absurd
- adjective - ridiculous
- a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless; "The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth"--Albert Camus
- incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous"
- inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman
Accumb
- - To recline, as at table.