abstringe
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin abstringō, from ab- (“away”) + stringō (“I bind, I tie”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əb.stɹɪnd͡ʒ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Verb
abstringe (third-person singular simple present abstringes, present participle abstringing, simple past and past participle abstringed)
- (transitive, obsolete, very rare) To unbind; to loosen.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:abstringe.