abut
verb /əˈbʌt/
/əˈbʌt/
[intransitive, transitive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they abut | /əˈbʌt/ /əˈbʌt/ |
| he / she / it abuts | /əˈbʌts/ /əˈbʌts/ |
| past simple abutted | /əˈbʌtɪd/ /əˈbʌtɪd/ |
| past participle abutted | /əˈbʌtɪd/ /əˈbʌtɪd/ |
| -ing form abutting | /əˈbʌtɪŋ/ /əˈbʌtɪŋ/ |
- abut (on/onto) something (of land or a building) to be next to something or to have one side touching the side of something
- His land abuts onto a road.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Anglo-Latin abuttare, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to, at’) + Old French but ‘end’.