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Abdominal muscle.
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An abscess caused by injecting an illegal drug, usually heroin.
verb
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To abseil.
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The early stages of; the beginning process; the start.
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(now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
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To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
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To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
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To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
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To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
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To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
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To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
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To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
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To terminate a process prior to completion.
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Initialism of absolute value function.
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Thermodynamic temperature; temperature measured on an absolute scale such as the Kelvin scale.
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Derived; extracted.
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Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
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Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
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Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
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Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
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Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
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Absent-minded.
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Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
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Insufficiently factual.
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Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
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(grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
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Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.