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)

(transitive) To avert; to ward off.
(transitive) 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.

Related terms

averruncator

Translations

to root up

Russian: искореня́ть (ru) n (iskorenjátʹ), вырыва́ть (vyryvátʹ) с (s) корнем (kornem) (vyryvátʼ s kórnem)

Latin

Verb

āverruncāte

first-person plural present active imperative of āverruncō