a-, ab-, abs- +

Situated or directed away from a dead or injured part; applied especially to electric currents set up in injured tissue.

To give up or to surrender.

1. Not normal, not average, not typical, irregular, deviant: "He had abnormal powers of concentration."
2. Unusual or unexpected; especially, in a way that causes alarm or anxiety.
3. Much greater than the normal: "Abnormal profits might be blamed for the financial crisis."
4. Departing from the normal in; for example, intelligence and development: "They were very distressed when they found out that their daughter was abnormal."

From official [duties] and benefits.

A suspension from a job and the remunerations or pay which come with it.

1. To do away with completely; to completely destroy.
2. To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; such as, to abolish slavery, to abolish illegal drugs.
3. To put an end to, or to destroy; such as, physical objects; to wipe out.
4. Etymology: borrowed from Middle French aboliss-, stem of abolir, "to abolish"; a borrowing from Latin abolescere, "to die out" (ab- "off" + -olescere, and is said by some etymological sources to be related to adolescere, "to grow up").

1. Someone who intensely hates or loathes.
2. Anyone who thoroughly detests or abhors.

Opposite to, away from, or distantly remote from the mouth.

From the first; from the origin.

This phrase may be translated as “from the very beginning, from the source, or from the origin”; and from the beginning of something; from the creation of the world.

Faithful from the first.

1. Native; any of the first or earliest known inhabitants of a region.
2. Etymology: ab- + origine, "original".

The Aborigines, an Italian tribe from Latium whom the Latins were said to be descended; hence original inhabitants of a country.

1. Expulsion of a fetus from the womb before it is viable; however, medical personnel will also use this term for a miscarriage, which is involuntary, calling it a "spontaneous abortion".
2. Induced termination of pregnancy before the fetus is capable of independent survival.
3. Anything that fails to develop, progress, or mature; such as, a design, project, or a badly developed plan, etc.
4. To miscarry, to disappear.
4. Etymology: ab-, "from, away from" and oriri, "to come into being, to rise, to be born".

1. A reference to being incompletely developed.
2. Effecting an abortion; abortifacient (a drug or device that causes abortion) or an intervention to end a pregnancy by removing an embryo or fetus from the womb.
3. Cutting short the course of a disease.
4. Failing to accomplish an objective, futile; imperfectly developed.

From the egg; from the very beginning.

A search ab ovo is a thorough analysis and a complete presentation.

From the egg to the apples.

A Roman phrase similar to English, “from soup to nuts”; but it means “from start to finish”. This meaning is based on the fact that Roman dinners often began with eggs and ended with fruit.

From the beginning to the end of any enterprise; thoroughly or without qualification.

1. A scraping or rubbing off, as of skin.
2. A wearing away by rubbing or scraping, as of rock by wind, water, etc.