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Adored vs Odored - What's the difference?

adored | odored |

As verbs the difference between adored and odored

is that adored is past tense of adore while odored is past tense of odor.

As an adjective odored is

having an odor, especially having a specified odor.

adored

English

Verb

(head)
  • (adore)

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    adore

    English

    Verb

    (ador)
  • To worship.
  • *(Tobias Smollett) (1721–1771)
  • *:Bishops and priests,bearing the host, which he [James] publicly adored .
  • To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.
  • :
  • * (1800-1859)
  • *:The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Montouth.
  • To be very fond of.
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  • *:"I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places."
  • (lb) To adorn.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:Like to the hore / Congealed drops, which do the morn adore .

    • Derived terms

    * adorant * adorative * adorer * adoringly

    Related terms

    * adorable * adoration

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    odored

    English

    Alternative forms

    * odoured

    Verb

    (head)
  • (odor)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • having an odor, especially having a specified odor

    • Usage notes

    * Used especially in combination, as "wintergreen-odored".

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