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noun

• The case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb.
  • synonyms: ablative case

adjective

• Relating to the ablative case.
• Tending to ablate; i. E. To be removed or vaporized at very high temperature.
  • usage: "ablative material on a rocket cone"

• (a.) Taking away or removing.
• (a.) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation or taking away.
• The ablative case.