English to English Dictionary

Abandonment

The action or an instance of abandoning or being abandoned.

Abate

To become less intense, widespread, or severe.

Abattoir

A slaughterhouse.

Abdicate

To renounce or relinquish a throne, high office, or responsibility.

Abdication

The formal act of resigning from, relinquishing, or giving up a throne, high office, or formal responsibility.

Abhor

Regard with disgust and hatred.

Abhorred

To regard with disgust and hatred.

Abnegation

The act of renouncing or rejecting something, especially one's own interests or desires.

Abolition

The action of officially ending or stopping a law, system, practice, or institution.

Aboriginal

Inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists; indigenous.

Abridgment

A shortened form of a book, play, or other piece of writing.

Abscess

A swollen area within body tissue, containing an accumulation of pus.