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TOEFL BNC: 20120 COCA: 18235

abut

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
abut ˈbʌt/ verb
abuts; abutted; abutting
abut
ˈbʌt/
verb
abuts; abutted; abutting
Learner's definition of ABUT
formal
: to touch along an edge毗邻;紧靠
[+ object]
[no object]
often + on

— abutter

ˈbʌtɚ/ noun, plural abutters [count]
TOEFL BNC: 20120 COCA: 18235
abutted; abutting

transitive verb

1
: to border on : to touch along an edge
Their property abuts our land.
2
: to cause to touch or lean for support
abut a timber against a post

intransitive verb

1
: to touch along a border or with a projecting part
a parcel of land that abuts on the road
2
a
: to terminate at a point of contact
b
: to lean for support

Example Sentences

Their property and our property abut. our land abuts a nature preserve, so we see a lot of wildlife
Recent Examples on the Web If that were to happen, the civic center property would abut the I-10 ramp. Margaret Kates | Mkates@al.com, al, 20 Aug. 2022 Some back yards of homes in the under-construction, 52-home Montebello luxury home community will also abut Beta Drive back yards, but an agreement has already been reached with the builder and its Beta Drive business neighbor Mars Electric. cleveland, 9 Apr. 2022 Quite often, opponents, particularly those whose properties would abut a new trail, don’t want change and speak loudest. Steven Litt, cleveland, 21 Feb. 2022 At times, gangs with territories that abut one another battle over drugs and turf. Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021 Echoing the geography of apartheid, those neighborhoods often abut vast townships — with one providing labor to the other. Washington Post, 17 July 2021 Hockema, Hinojosa and their allies hope the remaining two, Texas LNG and Rio Grande LNG, which would abut each other on the Brownsville Ship Channel, meet the same fate before they can be built. Washington Post, 3 June 2021 The gondola will abut the Granite Chief Wilderness — its stanchions towering over the treetops and its cables and cabins running above the popular Five Lakes Trail. Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2021 The park will abut part of more than 240 acres of open space that is managed by the Back Country Land Trust, also known as Wright’s Field Preserve. San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English abutten, borrowed from Anglo-French abuter, from a-, verb-forming prefix (going back to Latin ad- ad-) + bout, but "push, thrust, blow, end, extremity," noun derivative from bouter, boter "to push, thrust, strike" — more at butt entry 3

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of abut was in the 14th century
TOEFL BNC: 20120 COCA: 18235

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