abstrude

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
13
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/əbˈstɹuːd/

Definition of abstrude

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To thrust away.
    “Thus it is with regard to the elementary substance of fire; dispensed, perhaps, to every thing corporeal, but hid deepest in those substances which are most densely compacted. It is intimately abstruded in what poetical licence terms the Veins of Flint; […]”
    “.[…] the Greeks, while they retained the purity of their language, did not, any more than the Latins, rhyme their verse, but on the contrary (Mr. Swift's very words) 'abstruded the rhyme from it by metre and quantity.'”
    “In winter, owing to the great amount of water poured into the sea, and the less amount abstruded by evaporation, the water stands some ten or twelve feet higher than at other times.”
    “The Golek". A hexagonal roll, with a row of teeth, about six inches long, abstruding from each of the sides of the hexagon; or a serrated board in place of the teeth. This implement is used in some districts instead of the plough or “chankol.””

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Etymology

From Latin abstrūdō (“push away, hide”). See abstruse.

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