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Definition of abstracting : of Abstract

Synonyms:

omitting, evacuating, vacating, voiding, emptying, leaving, departing, absenting

heisting, palming, filching, stealing, grabbing, looting, copping, pirating, extorting, swiping, blackmailing, lifting, defrauding, embezzling, sticking up, pocketing, hijacking, swindling, nipping, plundering, holding up, poaching, mugging, burglarizing, hauling, fleecing, robbing, rustling, plagiarizing, pilfering, shoplifting

Usage examples:

• We have already referred to his remarkable power of abstracting himself from the work, no matter how engrossing, immediately in hand, and concentrating his energies upon the details of some entirely different business. - "Self Help", Samuel Smiles.
• Haward laughed, and abstracting another bottle from the shelf broke its neck. - "Audrey", Mary Johnston.
• Just at the moment when I should have been abstracting the fifteen hundred dollars from the box under the tree, according to the original proposition, Bill was counting out two hundred and fifty dollars into Dorset's hand. - "The Boy Scouts Book of Stories", Various.