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Webster 1913 Edition

Averruncate

Avˊer-run′cate

,
Verb.
T.
[L.
averruncare
to avert;
a
,
ab
, off +
verruncare
to turn; formerly derived from
ab
and
eruncare
to root out. Cf.
Aberuncate
.]
1.
To avert; to ward off.
[Obs.]
Hudibras.
2.
To root up.
[Obs.]
Johnson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Averruncate

AVERRUNC'ATE

, v.t [L. averrunco, of ab and erunco, from runco, to weed, or rake away.]
To root up; to scrape or tear away by the roots.

Definition 2024

averruncate

averruncate

English

Verb

averruncate ‎(third-person singular simple present averruncates, present participle averruncating, simple past and past participle averruncated)

  1. (transitive) To avert; to ward off.
  2. (transitive) To root up.
    • 1859, Samuel Butler, “Canto 1, Line 758”, in Henry George Bohn, editor, Hudibras, page 31:
      Unless by providential wit, / Or force, we averruncate it.

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Latin

Verb

āverruncāte

  1. first-person plural present active imperative of āverruncō

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