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Rancid vs Ran - What's the difference?

rancid | ran |

As an adjective rancid

is being rank in taste or smell.

As a noun ran is

a robbery (act or practice of robbing).

rancid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Being rank in taste or smell.
    • The house was deserted, with a rancid half-eaten meal still on the dinner table.
  • offensive
    • His remarks were rancid ; everyone got up and left.

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "rancid" often gets applied: food, butter, meat, milk, fat, oil, smell, odor, taste.

    Related terms

    * rancidification * rancidly * rancidness * rancor

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    ran

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (head)
  • (run)

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • (nautical) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.

    • Etymology 3

    (etyl) ran

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Open robbery.
    • (Lambarde)
    (Webster 1913)

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