aberuncate

Verb

aberuncate (third-person singular simple present aberuncates, present participle aberuncating, simple past and past participle aberuncated)

1. (rare, transitive) To eradicate; to pull up by the roots.
   • His nefarious repercussion of obloquy must contaminate, and obumbrate, and who can tell but it may even aberuncate his feculent and excrementitious celebrity.1782, James Thomson Callender, Deformities of Dr Samuel Johnson: Selected from his works
   • The deprivation of abbacy reduced the auld abbey-lubber to an aberrant state, devoid of adjument; and sad reverse! from the soft indulgence of accubation, his feet were daily abraded, in arenulous situations, in aberuncating roots for his sustenance, on sectivous mountains.1808, John MacDonald, A treatise on talegraphic communication, navel, military, and political