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Definition of abut : To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; - with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.

Synonyms:

inch, interconnect, frame, bunt, surround, bound, jar against, march, interface, knock against, edge, intersect, ring, parade, butt against, environ, process, run into, verge, interlock, bump into, fringe, butt on or, skirt, be adjacent to, near, flank, demonstrate, neighbor, overlap, frame in, butt on, exhibit

cling, hitch, affix, merge, relate, join, bond, fasten, stick, annex, connect, juxtapose, splice, bind, marry, wed, attach, adhere, couple

ally, affiliate, consolidate, amalgamate

butt, contact, border, adjoin, meet, touch, reach out

Usage examples:

• In these layers, which abut against the granite, a mixture of mica and of unrounded grains of quartz and felspar occur, evidently derived from the disintegration of the crystalline rock, which must have decomposed in the atmosphere before the mud had reached this height. - "The Antiquity of Man", Charles Lyell.
• The ward lay still or shuffled abut quietly. - "K", Mary Roberts Rinehart.
• There is no escape behind, the man said; the walls are high, and other houses abut upon them. - "Bonnie Prince Charlie A Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden", G. A. Henty.