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Word: ablative
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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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