abstringe

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.

Anagrams

beratings, bitranges, breasting

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