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1. (adj.) adust
dried or darkened as by heat.
2. adust
burned; scorched.
3. adust
Archaic. gloomy in appearance or mood.
Etymology: (1400–50; late ME < L adustus, ptp. of adūrere=ad-ad - +ūrere to burn)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked
dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
"a vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat"; "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare"; "sunbaked salt flats"
2. (adj) adust
burned brown by the sun
"of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) adust
inflamed or scorched; fiery
2. (adj) adust
looking as if or scorched; sunburnt
3. (adj) adust
having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy
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