adure

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adūrō.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To burn, completely or slightly.
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. [], London: [] William Rawley []; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee [], →OCLC:
      Such a degree of heat, which doth neither melt nor scorch, doth mellow, and not adure.

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Anagrams

Latin

Verb

adūre

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of adūrō

Spanish

Verb

adure

  1. inflection of adurir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative