ABUT (abutted, abutting)

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Irregular inflected forms: abutted    , abutting   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does abut mean? 

• ABUT (verb)
  The verb ABUT has 1 sense:

1. lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

  Familiarity information: ABUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABUT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they abut    ... he / she / it abuts   
Past simple: abutted   
Past participle: abutted   
-ing form: abutting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

abut; adjoin; border; butt; butt against; butt on; edge; march

Context example:

England marches with Scotland

Hypernyms (to "abut" is one way to...):

adjoin; contact; meet; touch (be in direct physical contact with; make contact)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "abut"):

neighbor; neighbour (be located near or adjacent to)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

abutment (point of contact between two objects or parts)

abutter (the owner of contiguous property)

 Context examples 

In addition, there are linear aggregates of tumor cells that tightly abut an epithelial surface.

(Botryoid-Type Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes a person having origins in any of the countries abutting the Mediterranean Sea, principally those of Europe.

(Mediterranean, NCI Thesaurus)

I walked round the corner, saw the City and Suburban Bank abutted on our friend’s premises, and felt that I had solved my problem.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This afternoon a carrier's cart with two men made a call at the empty house whose grounds abut on ours—the house to which, you will remember, the patient twice ran away.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“From the shadow of this wall, I think,” said I, as we emerged upon a road on which a wall abutted.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Tumor cell processes abutting capillaries are usually GFAP-positive.

(Mouse Papillary Ependymoma, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

When I found that the leading international agent, who had just left London, lived in a row of houses which abutted upon the Underground, I was so pleased that you were a little astonished at my sudden frivolity.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

None of the best rooms abutted on the road; and the narrow, heavily-framed old-fashioned windows, never cheerful under any circumstances, looked very dismal, close shut, and with their blinds always drawn down.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line of fine shops and stately business premises that they really abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square which we had just quitted.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a crazy old house with a wharf of its own, abutting on the water when the tide was in, and on the mud when the tide was out, and literally overrun with rats.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)