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
He was tired and adust with long riding; but he did not go home.
From Romola by George Eliot
Still I am not quite sorry to enjoy the weather of adust climates without their tempests and insects.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole
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
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