Use the noun metaphorically to make it describe an abstract concept.
Example:
After he began drinking, Tom became a slave to alcohol.
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The word 'high' is an abstract noun as a word for a chemically induced state of good feeling, excitement, or intoxication.The abstract noun form of the adjective 'high' is highness.
You don't, some nouns are abstract some are concrete. Abstract nouns are nouns that refer to something we cannot see or touch; they're ideas, feelings, concepts. Concrete nouns can be used in an abstract concept such as the concrete noun road as 'the road to happiness', or the concrete noun bucket as 'a bucket of dreams'. The concept has changed, not the word.
You can't change a concrete noun into an abstract noun, but you can use a concrete noun in an abstract context. Example:A highway is a concrete noun unless it's the highway to heaven.A heart is a concrete noun, part of the body or a shape like a valentine but when we say 'our heart is broken', we don't mean the body organ or something shaped like a heart, we mean the heart of our feelings, an abstract concept.
It can be, when used to mean correctly (we wanted the car fixed right) or in a certain direction (you turn right to go to the school). Right can also be a noun or an adjective.
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