Meaning & use
abut
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To be next to or touch along a border; to be adjacent to something.
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Their property abuts the national park to the north.
The new office building abuts an old brick warehouse.
A note on using this word
Abut is commonly used in legal, real estate, and architectural contexts to describe properties or structures that share a boundary.
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