sorb

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Borrowed from Middle French sorbier (the tree), sorbe (the fruit), from Latin sorbus (the tree), sorbum (the fruit). See service tree.

1. a vert, turn 2. ab brevi ate, short 3. ab duct, lead 4. ab ject, cast 5. ab lut ion, wash 6. ab origin es, beginning 7. ab rupt, break 8. ab sorb, suck in 9. ab solve, loosen 10. ab use, use. — Orthography : $b as outlined in the state course of study for Illinois : seventh and eighth years, Elmer W. (Elmer Warren) Cavins
But that ungrateful and malignant people, Which of old time from Fesole descended, And smacks still of the mountain and the granite, Will make itself, for thy good deeds, thy foe; And it is right; for among crabbed sorbs It ill befits the sweet fig to bear fruit. — Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell, Dante Alighieri

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