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To separate; to disengage.
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To remove; to take away; withdraw.
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To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
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To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
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To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
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To extract by means of distillation.
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To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
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To withdraw oneself; to retire.
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To draw off (interest or attention).
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He was wholly abstracted by other objects.
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To perform the process of abstraction.
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To create abstractions.
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To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
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He abstracted out the square root function.