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单词 abut
释义
abuta‧but /əˈbʌt/ (also abut on) verb (past tense and past participle abutted, present participle abutting) [transitive] formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINabut
Origin:
1400-1500 Partly from Old French aboter ‘to share a border with’, from bout ‘act of hitting, end’, from boter ‘to hit’; partly from Old French abuter ‘to come to an end’, from but ‘end, aim’
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
abut
Simple Form
Presenttheyabut
itabuts
Pastit, theyabutted
Present perfecttheyhave abutted
ithas abutted
Past perfectit, theyhad abutted
Futureit, theywill abut
Future perfectit, theywill have abutted
Continuous Form
Presenttheyare abutting
itis abutting
Pasttheywere abutting
itwas abutting
Present perfecttheyhave been abutting
ithas been abutting
Past perfectit, theyhad been abutting
Futureit, theywill be abutting
Future perfectit, theywill have been abutting
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • She veered away and, with no alternative site in view crashed into the swamp abutting the landing field.
  • Take a 15-storey building abutting a three-storey structure.
  • The back end of the truck should end up just abutting the door of the bay.
  • There was a small, dark bar abutting the lanes, and it called to me.
if one piece of land or a building abuts another, it is next to it or touches one side of itadjoin
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