abstracted
/æbˈstræktɪd/
adjective
- Lost in thought; not paying attention to what is happening around one.
- His abstracted expression made me think he was worrying about something.
- During the meeting, he sat with an abstracted look, not hearing a word.
- She gave an abstracted nod while reading her book.
- Taken or removed from something; separated.
- Water abstracted from the river is used for irrigation.
- The abstracted passage from the report was used out of context.
- The key data was abstracted from the main document.
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verb
- Past tense and past participle of 'abstract' (to remove or separate).
- He abstracted a few key points from the long speech.
- The scientist abstracted the essential elements from the mixture.
- They abstracted the metal from the ore.