Definitions
1.verbTo separate; to disengage.
2.verbTo remove; to take away; withdraw.
3.verbTo steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
4.verbTo summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
5.verbTo conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
6.verbTo extract by means of distillation.
7.verbTo consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
8.verbTo withdraw oneself; to retire.
9.verbTo draw off (interest or attention)."He was wholly abstracted by other objects."
10.verbTo perform the process of abstraction.
11.verbTo create abstractions.
12.verbTo produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out"."He abstracted out the square root function."