| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | an·i·mad·vert |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   n  -md-vûrt |
| INTRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: an·i·mad·vert·ed, an·i·mad·vert·ing, an·i·mad·verts
To remark or comment critically, usually with strong disapproval or censure: “a man . . . who animadverts on miserly patients, egocentric doctors, psychoanalysis and Lucky Luciano with evenhanded fervor” (Irwin Faust). | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English animadverten, to notice, from Latin animadvertere : animus, mind; see an- in Appendix I + advertere, to turn toward; see adverse.
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