adust
Americanadjective
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dried or darkened as by heat.
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burned; scorched.
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Archaic. gloomy in appearance or mood.
adjective
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dried up or darkened by heat; burnt or scorched
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gloomy or melancholy
Etymology
Origin of adust
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin adustus (past participle of adūrere ), equivalent to ad- ad- + us- (base of ūrere to burn) + -tus past participle suffix
Example Sentences
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It will also adust food court seating, shutter play areas and drinking fountains and restrict the number of sinks and urinals in restrooms.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2020
The culture in the field, once cordial and collaborative, became openly combative, as scientists adjusted to new norms of public critique while still struggling to adust to new standards of evidence.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2017
The "meagre, muse-rid mope, adust and thin" will commonly do better work when tucked out with three square meals a day, and having the sure and certain hope of their continuance.
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce
The Oxford scholar long ago, as described by Chaucer, was adust and thin.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 by Various
He was a tall thin man, with an adust complexion, and the vivacity of his eye indicated some irascibility of temperament.
From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Sir Walter Scott
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