infuscate

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English

Etymology

From Latin infuscatus, past participle of infuscare; prefix in- (“in”) + fuscare (“to make dark”), from fuscus (“dark”).

Verb

infuscate (third-person singular simple present infuscates, present participle infuscating, simple past and past participle infuscated)

  1. (transitive) To darken; to make black or obscure.

Adjective

infuscate (comparative more infuscate, superlative most infuscate)

  1. Clouded with brown.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “infuscate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

īnfuscāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of īnfuscō
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