abuts

[uh-buht]

verb (used without object)

to be adjacent; touch or join at the edge or border (often followed by on, upon, or against): This piece of land abuts on a street.

verb (used with object)

to be adjacent to; border on; end at.

to support by an abutment.

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Abuts is always a great word to know.

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English < Middle French, Old French abuter touch at one end, verbal derivative of a but to (the) end; see a-⁵, butt²

Related forms

un·a·but·ting, adjective

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