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obduce

obduce verb: to cover.

Verb

obduce (third-person singular simple present obduces, present participle obducing, simple past and past participle obduced)

  1. (obsolete) To cover.
    • Animal exhibits its Face in the native colour of its Skin but Man; all others are covered with Feathers, or Hair, or a Cortex that is obduced over the Cutis as in Elephants and some sort of Indian Dogs.1677, Sir Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind

Forms of obduce

third-person singular presentobduces
present participleobducing
past participleobduced
pastobduced

Origin of obduce

From Latin obducere, obductum; ob (see ob-) + ducere (“to lead”).

Questions about obduce

What does obduce mean?
Obduce means to cover.
What part of speech is obduce?
Obduce is a verb.
What is the past tense of obduce?
The past tense of obduce is obduced.

Words near obduce in the dictionary

  1. obdiplostemonous
  2. obdiplostemony
  3. obdormition
  4. OBDs
  5. obdt
  6. obduce
  7. obduct
  8. obducted
  9. obducting
  10. obduction
  11. obductions

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