adure

English

Etymology

Latin adurere; ad + urere to burn.

Verb

adure (third-person singular simple present adures, present participle aduring, simple past and past participle adured)

  1. (obsolete) To burn up.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.


Latin

Verb

adūre

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of adūrō

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