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averruncating

averruncating is the present participle and gerund 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 averruncating

What is averruncating the present participle and gerund of?
Averruncating is the present participle and gerund of averruncate.

Words near averruncating in the dictionary

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

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