abstract
adjective
thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances.
have abstracted
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present perfectof abstract.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Exercise them now, and conjecture me who could have abstracted the body from the church.
From The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Rafael Sabatini
I have abstracted both keys and put them in my pocket.
From The Youth of the Great Elector by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
Therefore, believe me, the sentiments I have now expressed are fixed in my mind as a rule of life, from which I have abstracted all influences of romance or of actual fact.
From Modeste Mignon by Honoré de Balzac
When we have abstracted from our concept all substance and duration, there is left only void.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
Had there been a mail for the ladies, he would have brought it to them; had it contained a letter from California, he would have abstracted and burnt it.
From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest
