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œstruate

œstruate is the obsolete form of oestruate.

Meaning of oestruate

Verb

oestruate (third-person singular simple present oestruates, present participle oestruating, simple past and past participle oestruated)

  1. To be in heat (state of sexual receptivity).

Forms of œstruate

third-person singular presentœstruates
present participleœstruating
past participleœstruated
pastœstruated

Questions about œstruate

What is œstruate the obsolete form of?
Œstruate is the obsolete form of oestruate.

Words near œstruate in the dictionary

  1. œstrogen
  2. œstrogenic
  3. œstrogens
  4. œstromania
  5. œstrone
  6. œstruate
  7. œstruates
  8. œstrus
  9. œstruses
  10. œsypum
  11. œthel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: œstruate (page history and authors); oestruate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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