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Adjective adjoining has 1 sense
- abutting, adjacent, adjoining, conterminous, contiguous, neighboring - having a common boundary or edge; touching; "abutting lots"; "adjoining rooms"; "Rhode Island has two bordering states; Massachusetts and Conncecticut"; "the side of Germany conterminous with France"; "Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho"; "neighboring cities"
Antonym: unconnected (indirect, via connected)
Verb adjoin has 3 senses
- border, adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt, butt against, butt on - lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland"
--1 is one way to touch, adjoin, meet, contact
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- touch, adjoin, meet, contact - be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point"
Sample sentences:
Our properties adjoin at this point
His fields adjoin mine at this point
- adjoin - attach or add; "I adjoin a copy of your my lawyer's letter"
--3 is one way to add
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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