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Word: ablative (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • obsolete Taking away or removing
  • engineering|nautical Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying, as in ablative paints used for antifouling.
  • grammar Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, such as Finnish, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being ''removal'', ''separation'', or ''taking away''.

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Noun:

  • grammar The ablative case.

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