ablative

ablative has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• a.. Taking away or removing.
• a.. Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.
• The ablative case.
• n.. the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb
• a.. tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature; "ablative material on a rocket cone"
• a.. relating to the ablative case