aboiement or aboîment (-boa-mān), n.m., barking, baying.
abois, n.m.pl., despairing condition, last shift, distress. Aux —; at bay, hard up, at one’s wits’ end. Mettre aux —; to drive to extremities. La place est aux —; the place, citadel, can hold out no longer, is in desperate straits.
abolir, v.a., to abolish, to repeal, to annul. — un impôt; to take off a tax.
s’abolir, v.r., to fall into disuse, to become obsolete.
abolissable, adj., abolishable.
abolissement (-mān), n.m., abolishment.
abolition, n.f., abolition; royal pardon; repeal.
abolitionniste, n.m., abolitionist.
abominable, adj., abominable, execrable.
abominablement, adv., abominably.