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abligate

abligate verb: to tie up, especially a body part.

Verb

abligate (third-person singular simple present abligates, present participle abligating, simple past and past participle abligated)

  1. (obsolete outside veterinary medicine) To tie up, especially a body part.
    • In order to simulate small intestinal conditions in the cecal pouches, the distal end of a cecal pouch of fourteen chickens, three to four months old, was surgically united to the small intestine and the intestine abligated just posterior to the union […]1936 April, C. A. Herrick, “Organ Specificity of the Parasite Eimeria tenella”, in Journal of Parasitology, volume 22, number 2, page 226

abligate meaning in Bengali

abligate in Bengali

বেঁধে ফেলা, আবদ্ধ করা

Forms of abligate

third-person singular presentabligates
present participleabligating
past participleabligated
pastabligated

Origin of abligate

From Latin ab- + ligātus, perfect passive participle of ligāre (“to tie”).

Words formed from abligate

Questions about abligate

What does abligate mean?
Abligate means to tie up, especially a body part.
What is abligate in Bengali?
Abligate in Bengali is বেঁধে ফেলা, আবদ্ধ করা. See Abligate meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is abligate?
Abligate is a verb.
What is the past tense of abligate?
The past tense of abligate is abligated.

Words near abligate in the dictionary

  1. ablest
  2. ablet
  3. ablets
  4. ablewackets
  5. ablewhackets
  6. abligate
  7. abligated
  8. abligates
  9. abligating
  10. abligation
  11. abligurition

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: abligate (page history and authors); abligate (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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