transitive verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
Etymology: English averruncate (partly influenced in meaning by Latin eruncare to weed out), from Latin averruncatus, past participle of averruncare to avert, from a, ab from, away + verruncare to turn; perhaps akin to Latin verrere to sweep — more at of , war
1. obsolete : to ward off or avert (as an evil)
2. obsolete : to weed out : uproot : cut away (as weed) : remove
• averruncation noun -s