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What is another word for Adustion?

Pronunciation: [ɐdˈʌst͡ʃən] (IPA)

Adustion is a medical term that refers to the drying out of a body part or tissue by heat. It can be used to describe the effect of a fever on the body or the process of roasting food. Synonyms for adustion include dehydration, desiccation, scorching, burning, and parching. These words are all related to the concept of heat and its effects on objects. While adustion is a specific term used in medical contexts, its synonyms are more widely used in everyday language to describe the drying out or burning of various items.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Adustion

For how can it be said, that when those Liquors are put together actually Cold, and continue so after their mixture, there intervenes any new Adustion of Sulphur to produce the emergent Blackness?
"Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664)"
Robert Boyle
And it is not alone in her profession that this gifted Adustion has amazed and benefited an incinerated public: to her the world is indebted for the many fire-escapes, life-preservers, salamander safes, improved pompier ladders, play-house exits, standpipes, and Babcock extinguishers of modern times.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson

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