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AVERRUNCATE

Definition: AVERRUNCATE

AVERRUNCATE

Transitive verb

1. To root up.

2. To avert; to ward off.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Averruncate \Av`er*run"cate\, transitive verb. [Latin expression averruncare to avert;, ab, off verruncare to turn; formerly derived from ab and eruncare to root out. Compare to Aberuncate.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: AVERRUNCATE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Extraction

Verb: extract, draw; take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck out, pick out, get out; wring from, wrench; extort; root up, weed up, grub up, rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out; eradicate; pull up by the roots, pluck up by the roots; averruncate; unroot; uproot, pull up, extirpate, dredge.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: AVERRUNCATE

Etymologies containing "AVERRUNCATE": Aberuncate. (references)

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Rhyming with "AVERRUNCATE"

Words rhyming with "AVERRUNCATE" (pronounced 'Av`er*run"cate'): Aberuncate, Baccate, Bisaccate, Bisulcate, Braccate, Conculcate, Conspurcate, Crebrisulcate, inculcate, infuscate, Mucate, Multisulcate, Obtruncate, Opacate, pacate, Porcate, Pyromucate, Quadrisulcate, relocate, Saccate, Siccate, Subaduncate, vacate. (additional references)

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Anagrams: AVERRUNCATE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-n-r-r-t-u-v"

-2 letters: centaurea.

-3 letters: acervate, arcature, creature, evacuant, evacuate, recanter, recreant, renature, taverner, uncreate, venturer, verrucae.

-4 letters: acerate, arcuate, aureate, catenae, cateran, caterer, centare, centaur, crenate, cuneate, currant, current, narrate, nervate, nervure, ravener, recrate, recurve, reenact, retrace, taverna, terrace, terrane, uncrate, vaunter, venture, verruca, veteran.

-5 letters: acuate, acuter, aerate, arcane, arrant, aurate, avaunt, avenue, canter, carate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: AVERRUNCATE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 56 45 52 52 55 4E 43 41 54 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    ...-    .    .-.    .-.    ..-    -.    -.-.    .-    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01010110 01000101 01010010 01010010 01010101 01001110 01000011 01000001 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#86 &#69 &#82 &#82 &#85 &#78 &#67 &#65 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0056 0045 0052 0052 0055 004E 0043 0041 0054 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3556395252554837355439

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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