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abut
verb as in touch or be next to something
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There is some debate about how this will affect clinics that abut sidewalks or public streets.
It was incredible technology that changed everything abut the way we communicate with each other.
Where the strips abruptly meet others, or abut upon a boundary at right angles, they are sometimes called butts.
The hotels abut upon the actual sands, just as Arcachon abuts upon its shallow oyster-beds.
These veins have no side plates or wall stones, but abut without intermediate gangues at the primitive rock.
This was quite likely the first of the servants' quarters, and that east wall must abut directly against the chimney.
The street at this point is (or was) obviously supported upon a masonry substructure, upon which the houses abut.
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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to abut, such as: adjoin, border on, join, neighbor, be adjacent to, and butt against.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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