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abaction

/æˈbækʃən/

abaction noun: carrying away by force, especially of animals.

Noun

abaction (uncountable)

  1. Carrying away by force, especially of animals.
  2. (archaic) Stealing cattle on a large scale.
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abaction meaning in Bengali and Kannada

abaction in Bengali

গোগ্রহ

abaction in Kannada

ಗೋಗ್ರಹಣ

Origin of abaction

From Latin abāctiō.

Questions about abaction

What does abaction mean?
Abaction means carrying away by force, especially of animals.
What is abaction in Bengali?
Abaction in Bengali is গোগ্রহ. See Abaction meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is abaction?
Abaction is a noun.
How do you pronounce abaction?
Abaction is pronounced /æˈbækʃən/.

Words near abaction in the dictionary

  1. abacterial
  2. abacterially
  3. abacters
  4. abactinal
  5. abactinally
  6. abaction
  7. abactor
  8. abactors
  9. abaculi
  10. abaculus
  11. abacus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: abaction (page history and authors); abaction (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); abaction (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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