averruncate

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)

1. (transitive, rare) To avert; to ward off.
2. (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.

Derived terms

• aberuncator
• averruncation

 

Related terms

• averruncator

Translations

to root up

• Russian: искореня́ть (ru) n (iskorenjátʹ), вырыва́ть с ко́рнем (vyryvátʹ s kórnem)

Latin

Verb

āverruncāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of āverruncō