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detrect

/dɪˈtɹɛkt/

detrect verb: to refuse; to decline.

Verb

detrect (third-person singular simple present detrects, present participle detrecting, simple past and past participle detrected)

  1. (obsolete) To refuse; to decline.
    • detrect to do something
    • the Danes hearing that the Scottes were come, detrected no time, but forthwith prepared to give battayle1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Scotlande, […]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC

Forms of detrect

third-person singular presentdetrects
present participledetrecting
past participledetrected
pastdetrected

Origin of detrect

From Latin dētrectō, from dē + tractō, frequentative of trahō (“to draw”).

Questions about detrect

What does detrect mean?
Detrect means to refuse; to decline.
What part of speech is detrect?
Detrect is a verb.
How do you pronounce detrect?
Detrect is pronounced /dɪˈtɹɛkt/.
What is the past tense of detrect?
The past tense of detrect is detrected.

Words near detrect in the dictionary

  1. Detraz
  2. detreat
  3. detreated
  4. detreating
  5. detreats
  6. detrect
  7. detrectation
  8. detrectations
  9. detrected
  10. detrecting
  11. detrects

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