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adust

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a⋅dust

  [uh-duhst]
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–adjective
1. dried or darkened as by heat.
2. burned; scorched.
3. Archaic. gloomy in appearance or mood.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME < L adustus (ptp. of adūrere), equiv. to ad- ad- + us- (base of ūrere to burn) + -tus ptp. suffix
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a·dust   (ə-dŭst')   
adj.  

  1. Burned; scorched.

  2. Archaic Browned by the sun; sunburned.

  3. Archaic Melancholy in appearance or temperament; gloomy.


[Middle English, from Latin adustus, past participle of adūrere, to set fire to : ad-, ad- + ūrere, to burn.]
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