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  1. abying: Merriam-Webster
  2. abying: Collins English Dictionary
  3. abying: Wiktionary

(Note: See aby as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ABY)

verb:  (transitive)
verb:  (archaic) To pay the penalty for (something); to atone for, to make amends.
verb:  (archaic, figuratively) To pay (something) as a penalty, to atone for; to suffer (something).
verb:  (obsolete except Scotland) To endure or tolerate (something); to experience.
verb:  (obsolete) To pay for (something); to buy.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete)
verb:  To pay the penalty; to atone.
verb:  To endure; to remain.
noun:  A village in Aby with Greenfield parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TL4178).
noun:  A village in south-eastern Ivory Coast.
noun:  (nickname) The Abyssinian cat.
noun:  (Christianity, informal) Initialism of Archbishop of York.
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