obduct

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/ɒbˈdʌkt/

verb

To draw over; to cover.

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Meanings

verbobduct (third-person singular simple present obducts, present participle obducting, simple past and past participle obducted)

present singular third person obducts · participle present obducting · participle past obducted · past obducted

  1. obsoleteTo draw over; to cover.

    men are left-handed when ever it happeneth that the Heart and Liver are seated on the left for when the liver is on the right side, yet so obducted and covered with thick skins.

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
  2. geographyTo push over or on top of, such as one tectonic plate being pushed over another.

Origin

See obduce.

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APA

obduct. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/obduct

MLA

“obduct.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/obduct. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “obduct,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/obduct.

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