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abutteth

abutteth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of abut.

Meaning of abut

Verb (1)

abut (third-person singular simple present abuts, present participle abutting, simple past and past participle abutted)

  1. (intransitive) To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land)
    • It was a time when Germany still abutted upon Russia.
  2. (transitive) To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:abut.

Verb (2)

abut (third-person singular simple present abuts, present participle abutting, simple past and past participle abutted)

  1. (intransitive) To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall.

Origin of abutteth

abut + -eth

Questions about abutteth

What is abutteth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Abutteth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of abut.

Words near abutteth in the dictionary

  1. abuttals
  2. abutted
  3. abutted on
  4. abutter
  5. abutters
  6. abutteth
  7. abutting
  8. abutting on
  9. abuttingly
  10. abuttings
  11. abutts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: abutteth (page history and authors); abut (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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