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 up.
    • Francis Bacon, Natural History.
      Such a degree of heat, which doth neither melt nor scorch, doth mellow, and not adure.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 adure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

adūre

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of adūrō

Spanish

Verb

adure

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of adurir.
  2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of adurir.
  3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of adurir.
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