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The idea behind all of these methods is to produce a blister, killing the skin that the wart is anchored in, and causing the wart to come off with that dead tissue.

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  1. noun A hard rough lump growing on the skin, caused by infection with certain viruses and occurring typically on the hands or feet.
  2. noun A similar growth or protuberance, as on a plant.
  3. noun A genital wart.
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  • The nest was just a barrel-wart, up above the signal crosstree, a somewhat cramped place for a man to be. —  111 - The Pirate Isle
  • Until then, she'd been merely another appendage, a deformity which my parents made me keep hidden, like a wart or a boil. —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 02 - February 1999
  • Every hulking muscle, wart, and tusk, every talon and square inch of skin the color of a lichen-crusted boulder, all blossomed on Bella Franklin's doorstep, topped by a spiffy blue cap embroidered with the words hotel security. —  FSFMagazine,August2007
  • The 12v wall-wart might be the best way to go if you are unfamiliar with electricity. —  Make - All Discussions
  • Bush acquiesced in the invasion for the first four days but, much more significantly, applauded the invasion as being the second phase of the war against terrorism (hereinafter referred to as the wart). —  Ziopedia - The Politically Incorrect Encyclopedia
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  1. Middle English, from Old English wearte.

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  1. Also dial, wrat, wrot; from Middle English wert, werte, sometimes wrete, from Anglo-Saxon wearte (plural weartan) = Middle Dutch warte, wratte, Dutch wrat = Old High German warza, Middle High German G. warze = Icelandic varta = Danish vorte = Swedish vårta, a wart, excrescence on the skin; cf. Old Bulgarian vrĕdŭ, eruption; perhaps connected with Anglo-Saxon wearre (and L. verruca), a wart.
 

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