abstringe

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin abstringō, from ab- (“away”) + stringō (“to bind, to 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) (obsolete, very rare)

  1. (transitive) To unbind; to loosen.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:abstringe.

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