2007-03-29 16:02:26 · 5 answers · asked by ivallrod 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
I know what it means - just wondered if it might be used in standard English.
2007-03-29 16:20:24 · update #1
Not unless I was in the medical profession and psychoanalysing someone.
For the benefit of those who don't know it is the releasing of repressed emotions by acting out the situation causing the conflict,as in words,behaviour or the imagination.
I feel better already!!!!
2007-03-29 23:08:07 · answer #1 · answered by the gunners 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you really mean to ask about the word "abreast," as in "they were walking two abreast."? If so, then yes, I use it all the time.
It means "in a single rank" or alongside each other.
2007-03-29 16:48:41 · answer #2 · answered by regrunion 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dictionaries 1-5 have no word like that....
so is it abject ? abreast ?
2007-03-29 16:17:48 · answer #3 · answered by Chrys 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't think of a reason for using it unless you were in therapy.
2007-03-29 16:53:22 · answer #4 · answered by MrClegg 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is that really a word? I don't know it.
2007-03-29 16:11:33 · answer #5 · answered by Roberta S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋