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obducts

obducts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of obduct.

Meaning of obduct

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.

Questions about obducts

What is obducts the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Obducts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of obduct.

Words near obducts in the dictionary

  1. obduct
  2. obducted
  3. obducting
  4. obduction
  5. obductions
  6. obducts
  7. obduracies
  8. obduracy
  9. obdurance
  10. obdurant
  11. obdurantly

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