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Word entry · 5 letters

crude

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"Unrefined"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /kɹuːd/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted cderuStarts with CEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. not processed or subjected to analysis

Word origin

From Middle English crude, borrowed from Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked, undigested, crude”). Doublet of crudo, from Italian. Cognate with Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”) via Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw blood”); more at raw.

Used in a sentence

  • crude oil
  • a crude shelter
  • a crude estimate

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