It is clear enough that the hound has been laid on from some article of Sir Henry’s—the boot which was abstracted in the hotel, in all probability—and so ran this man down.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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Merriam-Webster
— withdrawn in mind : inattentive to one’s surroundings
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Macmillan
— thinking about something so much that you do not seem to notice the world around you
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Other Word Forms
abstract
abstracting
abstracts
Usage
1 use of ‘abstracted’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle