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ABJURED
Definition of ABJURED
verb
simple past and past participle of abjure
verb
To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate.
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Another sense
ABJURED carries a second meaning.
verb
Simple past tense and past participle of abjure.
Word DNA
ABJURED inherits its ancestry from its root, ABJURE.
Line of descent
6 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
8.8%
of traced words share this origin (2,661)
How it is built
Same root, ABJURE · 3 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
ABJURED in a sentence
“Democracies, in particular, over a very long period of time, have very definitely abjured their use, which has brought us to the present situation, fraught as it is with destructive implications.”
Robert Eisenman: The Power of Ultimatums -- the Forgotten Diplomatic Tool, 2011
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ABJURED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 96 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 34, 23 June 2026.
Built from these letters
ABJURED starts with A and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ABDEJRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start ABJURE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 34
Could you have found ABJURED?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 34 - and most players walked straight past it.
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