This week’s theme
Verbs

This week’s words
forswear
circumvallate
rowel
subduct
contund

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Next week’s theme
Words relating to fruit

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(kuhn-TUHND)

MEANING:

verb tr.: To thrash or bruise.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin contundere, from con- (with) + tundere (to beat). Earliest documented use: 1599.

USAGE:

“The material of this coat, though liberally scored and contunded, especially in the rear, was so thick, and so strong, that it remained exempt from perforation.”
Samuel Beckett; Watt; Olympia Press; 1953.

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