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aberuncate

verb

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Pronunciation: /ˌæbəɹʌŋˈkeɪt/

verb

Etymology: From Late Latin aberuncare, from Latin averruncare.

  1. To eradicate; to pull up by the roots.

    His nefarious repercussion of obloquy must contaminate, and obumbrate, and who can tell but it may even aberuncate his feculent and excrementitious celebrity.

    The deprivation of abbacy reduced the auld abbey-lubber to an aberrant state, devoid of adjument; and sad reverse! from the soft indulgence of accubation, his feet were daily abraded, in arenulous situations, in aberuncating roots for his sustenance, on sectivous mountains.

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