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abscission
  • n  shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant
  • n  the act of cutting something off
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absconder
  • n  a fugitive who runs away and hides to avoid arrest or prosecution
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abscondment
  • n  the act of running away secretly (as to avoid arrest)
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abseil
  • n  (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body
  • v  lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside
    You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing
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abseiler
  • n  a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point
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absence
  • n  the state of being absent
    he was surprised by the absence of any explanation
  • n  failure to be present
  • n  the time interval during which something or somebody is away
    he visited during my absence
  • n  the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy
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