Ablative: alternatives and connections

A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), d…

To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.

A carrying or taking away; removal.

An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought…

The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like.

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an…

A prefix from a Greek preposition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a cutting off), ap…

The act of taking away.

The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.

The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away.

By ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: Go or come away; begone; take away.

Turned away; away.

To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes…

To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to c…

To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong ac…

Having a part cut off or away; having the corners rounded or cut away.

A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to…

To beguile; to amuse, so as to divert the attention; to while away; to take away as if by deception.