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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishabuta‧but /əˈbʌt/ (also abut on) verb (abutted, abutting) [transitive] formal PLACEif one piece of land or a building abuts another, it is next to it or touches one side of it → adjoin→ See Verb table Examples from the Corpusabut• Take a 15-storey building abutting a three-storey structure.• The back end of the truck should end up just abutting the door of the bay.• She veered away and, with no alternative site in view crashed into the swamp abutting the landing field.• There was a small, dark bar abutting the lanes, and it called to me.Origin abut (1400-1500) Partly from Old French aboter "to share a border with", from bout "act of hitting, end", from boter "to hit"; partly from Old French abuter "to come to an end", from but "end, aim"
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Verb table
abut
Simple Form
Present
they abut
it abuts
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Past
it, they abutted
Present perfect
they have abutted
it has abutted
Past perfect
it, they had abutted
Future
it, they will abut
Future perfect
it, they will have abutted
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Continuous Form
Present
they are abutting
it is abutting
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Past
they were abutting
it was abutting
Present perfect
they have been abutting
it has been abutting
Past perfect
it, they had been abutting
Future
it, they will be abutting
Future perfect
it, they will have been abutting
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