Abs
/æbz/
Scrabble:5 ptsWWF:6 pts3 letters
Definition of Abs
verb
- (now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
- To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
- To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
- To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
- To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
noun
noun
- Thermodynamic temperature; temperature measured on an absolute scale such as the Kelvin scale.
adjective
- Derived; extracted.
- Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
Anagrams of Abs
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Word Validity & Sources
SOWPODS (International Scrabble): Valid
TWL (US/Canada Scrabble): Valid
Words With Friends: Valid
Last verified: December 2024
Dictionary data sourced from SOWPODS (178,691 words), combining TWL (Tournament Word List) and the Collins Scrabble Words dictionary. Definitions from Free Dictionary API and Wordnik.
About the Word "Abs"
Abs is a 3-letter word that scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words With Friends. The letters in "abs" can be rearranged to form 2 other valid words.
Using "Abs" in Word Games
When playing Scrabble or Words With Friends, "abs" is a low-scoring word.