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Jul 6, 2018

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forswear
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rowel
subduct
contund

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Words relating to fruit

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with Anu Garg

contund

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.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. -Peter Singer, philosopher and professor (b. 6 Jul 1946)

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