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abstract from

abstract something from someone or something

to steal something from someone or something. (Formal.) The officer was found guilty of abstracting a rather large amount of money from the company.
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abstract something from something

to take the important information from a longer document; to extract the essentials or the gist from a piece of complicated writing. Can you abstract a shorter article from this material?
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Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Chausiku-Eastern African, Swahili
Adenauer['a:dənauə]
Lazaros-Biblical Greek
Anamaria-Romanian
Goran-Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian
AntonAHN-tawn (German), ahn-TON (Russian, Ukrainian), AHN-ton (Finnish)German, Russian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Dutch, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Slovene, Macedo
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