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aventre

/əˈvɛntɚ/

aventre verb: to thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear.

Verb

aventre (third-person singular simple present aventres, present participle aventring, simple past and past participle aventred)

  1. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear.
    • She mightily aventred towards one ,
      And downe him smot ere well aware he weare1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of aventre

third-person singular presentaventres
present participleaventring
past participleaventred
pastaventred

Origin of aventre

From Old French venter (“to cast to the wind”).

Questions about aventre

What does aventre mean?
Aventre means to thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear.
What part of speech is aventre?
Aventre is a verb.
How do you pronounce aventre?
Aventre is pronounced /əˈvɛntɚ/.
What is the past tense of aventre?
The past tense of aventre is aventred.

Words near aventre in the dictionary

  1. aventailes
  2. aventails
  3. Aventine
  4. Aventine Hill
  5. Aventines
  6. aventre
  7. aventred
  8. aventres
  9. aventring
  10. Avents
  11. Aventura

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