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obduct

/ɒbˈdʌkt/

obduct verb: to draw over; to cover.

Verb

obduct (third-person singular simple present obducts, present participle obducting, simple past and past participle obducted)

  1. (obsolete) To draw over; to cover.
    • men are left-handed when ever it happeneth that the Heart and Liver are seated on the left for when the liver is on the right side, yet so obducted and covered with thick skins.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
  2. To push over or on top of, such as one tectonic plate being pushed over another.

Forms of obduct

third-person singular presentobducts
present participleobducting
past participleobducted
pastobducted

Origin of obduct

See obduce.

Questions about obduct

What does obduct mean?
Obduct means to draw over; to cover.
What part of speech is obduct?
Obduct is a verb.
How do you pronounce obduct?
Obduct is pronounced /ɒbˈdʌkt/.
What is the past tense of obduct?
The past tense of obduct is obducted.

Words near obduct in the dictionary

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

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