aventre

A1V4E1N1T1R1E1
/əˈvɛntɚ/

verb

To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear.

OriginOld French venter →
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Meanings

verbaventre (third-person singular simple present aventres, present participle aventring, simple past and past participle aventred)

present singular third person aventres · participle present aventring · participle past aventred · past aventred

  1. ambitransitiveobsoleteTo thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear.

    She mightily aventred towards one , And downe him smot ere well aware he weare

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Old Frenchventer“to cast to the wind”
  2. Englishaventre

From Old French venter (“to cast to the wind”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

veteranNeretvaTrevenavernatenervate
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MLA

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Chicago

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