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adust
adjective
[ əˈdʌst ]
• scorched; burnt.
• gloomy; melancholic.
Origin:
late Middle English: from French aduste or Latin adustus ‘burnt’, from adurere, from ad ‘to’ (as an intensifier) + urere ‘to burn’.
