Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to abstract
Participle: abstracted
Gerund: abstracting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | abstract |
| you | abstract |
| he;she;it | abstracts |
| we | abstract |
| you | abstract |
| they | abstract |
Perfect
| I | have abstracted |
| you | have abstracted |
| he;she;it | has abstracted |
| we | have abstracted |
| you | have abstracted |
| they | have abstracted |
Past
| I | abstracted |
| you | abstracted |
| he;she;it | abstracted |
| we | abstracted |
| you | abstracted |
| they | abstracted |
Pluperfect
| I | had abstracted |
| you | had abstracted |
| he;she;it | had abstracted |
| we | had abstracted |
| you | had abstracted |
| they | had abstracted |
Future
| I | will abstract |
| you | will abstract |
| he;she;it | will abstract |
| we | will abstract |
| you | will abstract |
| they | will abstract |
Future Perfect
| I | will have abstracted |
| you | will have abstracted |
| he;she;it | will have abstracted |
| we | will have abstracted |
| you | will have abstracted |
| they | will have abstracted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | abstract |
| you | abstract |
| he;she;it | abstract |
| we | abstract |
| you | abstract |
| they | abstract |
Perfect
| I | have abstracted |
| you | have abstracted |
| he;she;it | have abstracted |
| we | have abstracted |
| you | have abstracted |
| they | have abstracted |
Imperfect
| I | abstracted |
| you | abstracted |
| he;she;it | abstracted |
| we | abstracted |
| you | abstracted |
| they | abstracted |
Pluperfect
| I | had abstracted |
| you | had abstracted |
| he;she;it | had abstracted |
| we | had abstracted |
| you | had abstracted |
| they | had abstracted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would abstract |
| you | would abstract |
| he;she;it | would abstract |
| we | would abstract |
| you | would abstract |
| they | would abstract |
Perfect
| I | would have abstracted |
| you | would have abstracted |
| he;she;it | would have abstracted |
| we | would have abstracted |
| you | would have abstracted |
| they | would have abstracted |
Imperative
| you | abstract |
| we | Let's abstract |
| you | abstract |
Verbs conjugated like 'abstract'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'abstract'
abstrict,
adstrict,
astrict,
attract,
distract,
obstruct,
reabstract,
substract,
abreact,
abstain,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to take something that does not belong to one
- abduct, appropriate, bag, bandit, bone, boost, borrow, burglarize, burgle, cheat, chore, convert, cop, cozen, crib, embezzle, filch, fleece, flog, gaffle, half-inch, heist, jack, kidnap, knock off, kype, kyper, liberate, lift, loot, make off with, mill, misappropriate, moonlight requisition, nick, own, peculate, pickpocket, pilfer, pillage, pinch, pirate, plunder, poach, pocket, prig, purloin, raid, ransack, rape, reave, rip, rip off, rob, run off with, snag, snatch, steal, swindle, swipe, thieve, walk off with
- to repeat in concise form
- abridge, capsule, concise, docket, encapsulate, epitomize, gist, nutshell, outline, recap, recapitulate, run over, sum, sum up, summarize, synopsize, wrap up
- separate
- apart, isolated, special, unrelated
- steal
- rob, appropriate, pilfer, rifle, purloin, shoplift, loot
Antonyms
- separate
- connect, combine, attach, consolidate
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English abstract, borrowed from Latin abstractus, perfect passive participle of abstrahō (“draw away”), formed from abs- (“away”) + trahō (“to pull, draw”). The verbal sense is first attested in 1542.
Sample Sentences
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He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices. [1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:]
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The lightning of the public burdens, which at present abstract a large proportion of profits and wages. [1834, Harriet Martineau, Illustration of Political Economy, volume IX:]
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Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness. [1872, William Black, The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton:]
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The inlaid characters in diamond, and other precious stones, have been all abstracted away by the pelf-loving Jaut and Mahratta—leaving the walls defaced with the hollow marks of the chisel. [1869, Bholanauth Chunder, The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India:]
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Section 13 of the 1968 Act enacts a separate offence of dishonestly abstracting electricity. The separate offence is needed because electricity, like other forms of energy such as heat, is not property. [2014, A P Simester, J R Spencer, G R Sullivan, Simester and Sullivan's Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine:]
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Poison from roses who could e'er abstract? [1601, John Marston, Antonio's Revenge, act II, scene I:]
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The young stranger had been abstracted and silent. [June 1869, William Blackwood, Late for the Train (published in Blackwood's Magazine)]
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He was wholly abstracted by other objects.
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To abstract the notions of time, of space, and of matter. [1781, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume II:]
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I own myself able to abstract in one sense. [1710, George Berkeley, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge:]
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He abstracted out the square root function.