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To pull up by the roots; extirpate utterly. Johnson. Aberuncated, pulled up by the roots, weeded. Bailey.

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"averruncate" (from Lat. _averruncare_, to ward off, remove mischief) glided into meaning to "weed the ground," "prune vines," &c., by a supposed derivation from the Lat. _ab_, off, and _eruncare_, to weed out, and it was spelt "aberuncate" to suit this; but the _New English Dictionary_ regards such a derivation as impossible. — Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"

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An erroneous form of averruncate, as if from Latin aberuncare, from ab, from, + e for ex, out, + runcare, uproot, weed; hence the unauthorized sense given by Bailey. See averruncate.

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