Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
あば
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 褫く – see the following entry.
あばく
[verb] 褫く: (obsolete) to become sparse, to grow wild, to fall apart, to fall into ruin
[verb] 褫く: (obsolete) to be careless
[verb] (rare, apparently colloquial, possibly obsolete, mainly in the negative) to fit into a space
[verb] (rare, apparently colloquial, possibly obsolete, mainly in the positive) to overflow, to overabound, to be too much
(This term, 褫く, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)