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ABSTRACTING

11 letters

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Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 22 pts

ABSTRACTING is a valid 11-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 22 in Super Big Boggle.

ABSTRACTING root ABSTRACT-ing

noun
  1. An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
  2. Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
  3. Concentrated essence of a product.
  4. A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
  5. An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
  6. The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
  7. An abstract work of art.
  8. A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
adjective
  1. obsoleteDerived; extracted.
  2. archaicDrawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
  3. Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
    • Her new film is an abstract piece, combining elements of magic realism, flashbacks, and animation but with very little in terms of plot construction.
  4. Insufficiently factual.
  5. Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
  6. As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
  7. Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
    • The politician gave a somewhat abstract answer when asked about their plans to cut spending.
  8. Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
  9. Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
  10. archaicAbsent-minded.
  11. capitalizedoftenFree from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
  12. Absolute.
  13. Lacking a story.
  14. Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
verb
  1. transitiveTo separate; to disengage.
  2. transitiveTo remove; to take away; withdraw.
  3. euphemistictransitiveTo steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
  4. obsoletetransitiveTo extract by means of distillation.
  5. transitiveTo draw off (interest or attention).
  6. figurativelyintransitiveliterallyreflexivetransitiveTo withdraw oneself; to retire.
  7. transitiveTo consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
  8. transitiveTo conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
  9. intransitiveraretransitiveTo perform the process of abstraction.
  10. intransitivetransitiveTo create abstractions.
  11. intransitivetransitiveTo produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
  12. transitiveTo summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.