Definitions for abuts

abuts a·but

Spelling: [uh-buht]
IPA: /əˈbʌt/

Abuts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in abuts (abstu).

Definitions for abuts

verb (used with object)

  1. to be adjacent to; border on; end at.
  2. to support by an abutment.

verb (used without object)

  1. to be adjacent; touch or join at the edge or border (often followed by on, upon, or against):

Origin of abuts

1425-75; late Middle English Middle French, Old French abuter touch at one end, verbal derivative of a but to (the) end; see a-5, butt

Examples for abuts

Where the strips abruptly meet others, or abut upon a boundary at right angles, they are sometimes called butts.

When two timbers or planks are united endways, they are said to butt or abut against each other.

There is some debate about how this will affect clinics that abut sidewalks or public streets.

I come to talk to you abut M. de Boiscoran, my betrothed, my husband.

With a few exceptions, they are charged with no atmosphere and abut at no climax.

To cause s to become locked in its adjusted position a plug screw p is inserted for the end of s to abut against.

But he perceived with surprise that the pillar did not abut immediately on the wall, as he had supposed.

The bearings of feed roll a abut against rubber cushions c, c, whose amount of compression is regulated by the set screws d, d.

The need of some central building, against which these additions may abut, will be felt.

Charlie, who came in last, did not abut the door behind him.

Word Value for abuts
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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