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“abstracted”
abstract (verb), abstracts; abstracted; abstracting
1. To take away; to remove without permission; to filch; such as, a thief who abstracts a person's money from his or her apartment or takes it away from him or her: "While the thieves were in the house, they found and abstracted money and a computer from the residence."
2. To write a short summary of a speech, report, or other piece of writing: "Einstein's theory of relativity is said to be abstracted from data gathered in several scientific experiments."
2. To write a short summary of a speech, report, or other piece of writing: "Einstein's theory of relativity is said to be abstracted from data gathered in several scientific experiments."
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a-, ab-, abs-
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tra-, tract-, trac-, -tractive, -traction, -tracting, treat-, trai-
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(Latin: to chew over again, to chew the cud; to muse or to meditate; that is, to think about something in a deep and serious or dreamy and abstracted way or to think about something carefully, calmly, seriously, and for some time)