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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abutt.

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Examples

  • February 11, 2008 at 11:01 pm won thyme a cow gotted into my back yard our yard abutts a cow field, an sumone had left teh gate open an ate R littel vegetable garden.

    CHEEZBURGR W/ EXTRA LETTUCE - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • I have grown to love our cement slab three stories down the fire escape that abutts the decommisioned gas station and is resplendent in the plastic bags and garbage that blow over the chain link fence.

    Less Mediation of Outside Time Zombie Mom 2007

  • Friday is just the final day to be endured and Monday almost abutts it directly, as though the weekend can do nothing to assuage the devastating effects of the week just passed nor the week to follow.

    …drinking Exhibition « Sven’s guide to… 2005

  • I have grown to love our cement slab three stories down the fire escape that abutts the decommisioned gas station and is resplendent in the plastic bags and garbage that blow over the chain link fence.

    Ode to the 'Burbs Zombie Mom 2007

  • The other will now be held to replace Sullivan whose old seat in the legislature abutts Byrne's riding.

    Williams spreads thin, thinner Ed Hollett 2006

  • The other will now be held to replace Sullivan whose old seat in the legislature abutts Byrne's riding.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Ed Hollett 2006

  • It is about how it meets, joins with and leads its local area and community, what it adds rather than what it detracts from the space it is built upon and abutts, and how the use of the building will evolve over time.

    London SE1 community website Newcastle Guy 2010

  • It is about how it meets, joins with and leads its local area and community, what it adds rather than what it detracts from the space it is built upon and abutts, and how the use of the building will evolve over time.

    London SE1 community website Newcastle Guy 2010

  • Tis well bethought, she questionlesse with her sweet harmonie, and other chosen attractions, would allure and make a battrie through his defend parts, which now are midway stopt, shee is all happie as the fairest of all, and her fellow maides, now vpon the leauie shelter that abutts a-gainst the Islands side.

    Pericles (1609 Quarto) 1609

  • This all started with 1 school comittiee member crying because her house abutts the school.

    Lowell Sun Forum 2009

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