#definition

• Abranchial — Lacking gills (the specialized respiratory organs of aquatic organisms); not possessing a branchial respiratory system, performing gas exchange either via lungs or directly through the cutaneous apparatus (skin); (of evolutionary stages) a phase in an organism's development where the aquatic respiratory apparatus has not yet formed or has completely atrophied.
• Unruly — Unruly, bad-tempered, quick to anger, and difficult to control or tame (of people or horses); (of terrain, roads, or slopes) steep, precipitous, rugged, rocky, and difficult to access; (regional, of colors or visual appearance) striking, variegated, non-uniform, or spotted, usually having white spots on a dark background.
• Abraxas — A mystical word, symbolic formula, and supreme deity in the cosmology of certain Gnostic sects (especially the followers of Basilides), representing the Supreme Divinity, the Primordial Source, or the ruler of the 365 heavens; (history of religions) a cabalistic word whose Greek letters, when added according to Hellenic numerology (isopsephy), total exactly the value of 365, corresponding to the number of days in a solar year; symbolically represented as a hybrid figure with a rooster's head, a human body, and legs formed by serpents.
• Abrastol — The calcium salt of sulfo-beta-naphthol, used historically in the food and winemaking industries as an antiseptic, preservative, and stabilizing agent for fermented beverages; a chemical compound from the naphthol derivatives class later banned by modern sanitary laws due to its high toxic potential on the organism.
• To abrade — (Technical, rare) To perform an abrasion operation; cutting or smoothing a rigid surface through friction with abrasive materials; to grind or polish industrially.
• Abrading — The action of abrading and its result; a technical process of processing, finishing, or cleaning a mechanical surface through intense friction with abrasive materials; (by extension) wear caused to a material by a hard external agent.
• Abraded — Having undergone a process of abrasion; smoothed, polished, cleaned, or worn away by intense friction with a harder or abrasive material; (of parts or surfaces) mechanically ground.
• Abrasion — A complex process of mechanical wearing down, erosion, grinding, or polishing of a solid surface (rocks, metals, industrial materials) through repeated friction with hard particles or abrasive bodies; (in geology) the destructive erosive action on sea or large lake shores exerted by the violent movement of waves and transported debris; (in medicine/dentistry) progressive pathological loss of hard dental substance or skin tissue (superficial scratch, graze) caused by external mechanical frictional factors.
• Abrasive — A natural or artificial product or material (such as diamond, corundum, carborundum, or sand) composed of hard granules used through friction, wear, or impact to cut, polish, clean, or smooth metallic, wooden, or mineral surfaces; (adjectival, literal) possessing a rough structure capable of wearing down or eroding through friction; (adjectival, figurative) a communication style, behavior, or individual character marked by harshness, aggressiveness, verbal roughness, lack of tact, and a tendency to generate interpersonal conflicts or tensions.
• To abbreviate — To shorten a word, phrase, or text in writing, by keeping only certain letters (usually initials) or through a conventional symbol; to reduce the length of an exposition.
• Abbreviated — Having undergone abbreviation; reduced in writing through a shortened form, acronym, or conventional symbol; (of texts or works) condensed by removing secondary details.
• Abbreviator — A person who abbreviates, summarizes, or makes compendiums of voluminous written works; an official in the papal chancery tasked with drafting pontifical briefs; (as an adjective) that shortens or abbreviates.
• Abbreviation — The result of the act of abbreviating; a word, phrase, or title shortened by reducing the number of letters or syllables and usually marked by an orthographic period or by using capital letters in the form of an initialism or acronym; (broadly) a conventional writing procedure used to achieve space and time economy in graphic information transmission.
• To abrogate — (Jurisprudence) To annul, abolish, or officially repeal a law, decree, ordinance, or another regulatory act through a new legal provision of equal or higher rank.
• Abrogation — (Rare) Official annulment of a law or a regulatory act; a less frequent neologistic variant for the core term 'abrogare' (repeal).
• Archaic abrogation — (Archaic) Obsolete form for the action of repealing a law or its result; a 19th-century variant of the modern term 'abrogare', frequently used in early administrative and legal Romanian texts.
• Abrogative — (Jurisprudence) Serving to abrogate; having the power or effect of annulling, abolishing, or repealing a law or another regulatory act.
• Abru — A proper personal name from Oriental onomastics, famous in historiography through the chronicle of Hāfiz-i Abru (a 15th-century Persian historian who accompanied Timur Lenk); (rare, regional) a truncated form used in the Moți dialect as a shorthand for the town of Abrud.
• abruptly — (Rare, literary) Abruptly; in a steep or sudden manner; with sudden shifts in direction, pace, or tone; without smooth transitions or prior preparation; unexpectedly.
• To brutalize — To cause someone to lose their intellectual faculties, sensitivity, or moral dignity, degrading them toward an animalistic state; (reflexive) to become stupid, brutalized, insensitive, or morally degraded due to alcoholism, exhausting labor, or a harmful social environment.