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obdures

obdures is the third-person singular simple present indicative of obdure.

Meaning of obdure

Verb

obdure (third-person singular simple present obdures, present participle obduring, simple past and past participle obdured)

  1. (obsolete) To harden.
    • This saw his hapless foes, but stood obdur'd.1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

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Questions about obdures

What is obdures the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Obdures is the third-person singular simple present indicative of obdure.

Words near obdures in the dictionary

  1. obdurator
  2. obdurators
  3. obdure
  4. obdured
  5. obduredness
  6. obdures
  7. obduring
  8. obe
  9. obe ata
  10. obea
  11. obeah

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Adapted from Wiktionary: obdures (page history and authors); obdure (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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