All English words - page 21

Meanings of Abortionist:

noun

A person who carries out abortions.

Usage examples:

All three are abortionists who specialize in late abortions.

Meanings of Abortionists:

noun

A person who carries out abortions.

Usage examples:

All three are abortionists who specialize in late abortions.

Meanings of Abortions:

noun

The deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy.

Usage examples:

Concerns such as abortion and euthanasia

Meanings of Abortive:

adjective

Failing to produce the intended result.

Usage examples:

The rebel officers who led the abortive coup were shot

Meanings of Abortiveness:

noun

The quality of being abortive; unproductiveness, fruitlessness; failure.

Meanings of Aborts:

verb

Carry out or undergo the abortion of (a fetus).

Usage examples:

The decision to abort the fetus

noun

An act of aborting a flight, space mission, or other enterprise.

Usage examples:

An abort because of bad weather

Meanings of Abos:

noun

An aboriginal person.

adjective

Aboriginal.

Meanings of Aboulia:

noun

An absence of willpower or an inability to act decisively, a symptom of schizophrenia or other mental illness.

Usage examples:

We report 2 previously non-demented patients who developed acute confusional state, abulia, and mod…

Meanings of Abound:

verb

Exist in large numbers or amounts.

Usage examples:

Rumours of a further scandal abound

Meanings of Abound-in:

idiom

Exist in large quantity

phrasal verb

If something abounds in/with other things, it has a lot of them

Usage examples:

The coast here abounds with rare plants.

Meanings of Abounded:

verb

Exist in large numbers or amounts.

Usage examples:

Rumours of a further scandal abound

Meanings of Abounding:

adjective

Very plentiful; abundant.

Usage examples:

His abounding creative talent

verb

Exist in large numbers or amounts.

Usage examples:

Rumours of a further scandal abound

Meanings of Abounding-in:

phrasal verb

If something abounds in/with other things, it has a lot of them

Usage examples:

The coast here abounds with rare plants.

Meanings of Aboundingly:

adverb

Abundantly, plentifully; profusely.

Meanings of Abounds:

verb

Exist in large numbers or amounts.

Usage examples:

Rumours of a further scandal abound

Meanings of About:

preposition

On the subject of; concerning.

Usage examples:

I was thinking about you

adverb

Used to indicate movement within an area.

Usage examples:

Men were floundering about

(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct

Meanings of About time:

phrase

Used to convey that something now happening or about to happen should have happened earlier.

Usage examples:

It's about time i came clean and admitted it

idiom

(it is) past the time when something should have happened

Usage examples:

It’s about time she got a job.

Meanings of About-face:

noun

A complete change of direction, opinion, or way of acting

Meanings of About-there:

phrasal verb

To visit or travel to a lot of different places, enjoying yourself and not worrying about other things you should be doing

Usage examples:

We spent the weekend gadding about london and generally enjoying ourselves.

Meanings of About-to:

verb

To wave something, esp. arms or legs, energetically but with little or no control

Usage examples:

[ i ] his hands flailed wildly.

Meanings of About-turn:

noun

A change of direction

Usage examples:

Do an about-turn the dog did an about-turn and ran when it saw the bigger dog., make an about-turn …

Meanings of Abouts:

adverb

About.

preposition

About.

Meanings of Above:

preposition

In extended space over and not touching.

Usage examples:

A display of fireworks above the town

adverb

At a higher level or layer.

Usage examples:

Place a quantity of mud in a jar with water above

Meanings of Above water:

idiom

To just be able to continue doing what you do

Usage examples:

The business is in trouble, but we’re keeping our heads above water.

Meanings of Above-all:

idiom

Most importantly

Usage examples:

Above all, don’t forget to call when you get there.