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averruncates

averruncates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of averruncate.

Meaning of averruncate

Verb

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

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

Questions about averruncates

What is averruncates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Averruncates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of averruncate.

Words near averruncates in the dictionary

  1. Averroist
  2. Averroistic
  3. Averroists
  4. averruncate
  5. averruncated
  6. averruncates
  7. averruncating
  8. averruncation
  9. averruncations
  10. averruncator
  11. averruncators

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