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wart

UK/wɔːt/US/wɔɹt/
nounB1+Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,660 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: warts

A wart is a small hard growth on the skin. A wart on his finger, remove the wart, warts and all.

It is caused by a virus and spreads by contact, and most clear up by themselves within a couple of years without treatment. Warts and all means showing every fault, from Cromwell's instruction to the painter of his portrait.

Paul Benavidez, pablomelvin, · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of wart

  1. 1nounwartA small hard growth on the skin.B1+

    “She had a wart on her finger that the doctor froze off.”

wart is a skin growth.

Where it comes from

Old English wearte names the growth, from a Germanic root. German Warze is the same word.

  1. Proto-Germanic

    *wartǭ

  2. Proto-West Germanic

    *wartā

  3. Old English

    wearte

  4. Middle English

    warte

  5. English, today

    wart

From Middle English warte, werte, from Old English wearte, from Proto-West Germanic wartā, from Proto-Germanic wartǭ. Cognate with Dutch wrat, German Warze, hrx Waarz, Swedish vårta and Danish vorte.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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wart in the wild

  • A number of types exist, including plantar warts, "filiform warts", and genital warts.

    Wart

  • Without treatment, most types of warts resolve in months to years.

    Wart

  • There may be a few individual warts or several, either in a cluster or merged together to look cauliflower-shaped.

    Genital wart

  • HPV types 6 and 11 are responsible for causing majority of genital warts whereas HPV types 16, 18, 31, 33, and 35 are also occasionally found.

    Genital wart

  • A plantar wart, also known as a verruca, is a wart occurring on the bottom of the foot or toes.

    Plantar wart

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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