ablative

adjective

1. Gram. designating, of, or in a case expressing removal, deprivation, direction away from, source, cause, or agency
2. Astrophysics that ablates, as the protective coating material on the nose cone of a space missile

noun

1. the ablative case: this case is expressed by inflection in languages such as Latin, Sanskrit, and Hungarian
2. a word or phrase in this case