averruncate

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin āverruncāre (to avert), from āb (off) + verruncāre (to turn), but interpreted as being āb + ēruncāre (to weed out), and spelled accordingly.

Verb

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averruncate (third-person singular simple present averruncates, present participle averruncating, simple past and past participle averruncated)

  1. (transitive, rare) To avert; to ward off.
  2. (transitive, rare) To root up.
    • 1859, Samuel Butler, “Canto 1, Line 758”, in Henry George Bohn, editor, Hudibras, page 31:
      Unless by providential wit, / Or force, we averruncate it.

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Translations

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Latin

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Verb

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āverruncāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of āverruncō