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English
Etymology
From Latin āverruncāre (“to avert”), from āb (“off”) + verruncāre (“to turn”), but interpreted as being āb + ēruncāre (“to weed out”), and spelled accordingly.
Verb
averruncate (third-person singular simple present averruncates, present participle averruncating, simple past and past participle averruncated)
- (transitive, rare) To avert; to ward off.
- (transitive, rare) 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
- second-person plural present active imperative of āverruncō