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averses

averses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of averse.

Meaning of averse

Verb

averse (third-person singular simple present averses, present participle aversing, simple past and past participle aversed)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To turn away.
    • […] and, in this panegyrick of the Teutonick blood, I have so prolixly insisted, not only to vindicate our own, as being a stream of the same, and to evince the nobility thereof, but withal to convince the folly of those wretches among us, who aversing ours do so much adhere unto, and dote upon...1808, The Harleian miscellany

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Questions about averses

What is averses the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Averses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of averse.

Words near averses in the dictionary

  1. averse
  2. aversed
  3. aversely
  4. averseness
  5. aversenesses
  6. averses
  7. aversing
  8. aversio
  9. aversion
  10. aversion therapies
  11. aversion therapy

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