EGAVE

abut

About 0.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land) .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
    It was a time when Germany still abutted upon Russia.
  2. verb To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to.
  3. verb To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall.

Similar words

adjoin edge border butt butt against butt on touch abutt abut on borderline

Often followed by

the on against upon and a each one directly

Word family

abuts abutted abutting

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