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absist

/əbˈsɪst/

absist verb: to stand apart from; to leave off; to desist.

Verb

absist (third-person singular simple present absists, present participle absisting, simple past and past participle absisted)

  1. (obsolete) To stand apart from; to leave off; to desist.
    • They promise to absist from their purpose of making a war.1603-16, Walter Raleigh, The History of the World.

absist meaning in Bengali

absist in Bengali

আলাদা থাকা, কাজ বন্ধ করা, নিবৃত্ত হওয়া

Forms of absist

third-person singular presentabsists
present participleabsisting
past participleabsisted
pastabsisted

Origin of absist

Latin absistere (“desist”); from ab (“from, away from”) + sistō (“stand”).

Words formed from absist

Words that rhyme with absist

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Questions about absist

What does absist mean?
Absist means to stand apart from; to leave off; to desist.
What is absist in Bengali?
Absist in Bengali is আলাদা থাকা, কাজ বন্ধ করা, নিবৃত্ত হওয়া. See Absist meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is absist?
Absist is a verb.
How do you pronounce absist?
Absist is pronounced /əbˈsɪst/.
What is the past tense of absist?
The past tense of absist is absisted.

Words near absist in the dictionary

  1. absinthites
  2. absinthium
  3. absinthol
  4. absinths
  5. absis
  6. absist
  7. absisted
  8. absistence
  9. absistences
  10. absisting
  11. absists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: absist (page history and authors); absist (Bengali 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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