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adempt

adempt verb: to take away.

Verb

adempt (third-person singular simple present adempts, present participle adempting, simple past and past participle adempted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To take away.
    • without any sinister suspicion of any thing in the same being added or adempt1549, Hugh Latimer, “To the reader”, in The Second Sermon preached at Westminster, 15 March 1549

Forms of adempt

third-person singular presentadempts
present participleadempting
past participleadempted
pastadempted

Origin of adempt

From Latin ademptum, past participle of adimo (“to take away”).

Questions about adempt

What does adempt mean?
Adempt means to take away.
What part of speech is adempt?
Adempt is a verb.
What is the past tense of adempt?
The past tense of adempt is adempted.

Words near adempt in the dictionary

  1. ADEM
  2. Adema
  3. ademetionine
  4. ademonist
  5. ademonists
  6. adempt
  7. adempted
  8. adempting
  9. ademption
  10. ademptions
  11. adempts

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