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aggrate

aggrate verb: to gratify, cause pleasure to.

Verb

aggrate (third-person singular simple present aggrates, present participle aggrating, simple past and past participle aggrated)

  1. (obsolete) To gratify, cause pleasure to.
    • And euery of them stroue, with most delights, / Him to aggrate, and greatest pleasures shew […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of aggrate

third-person singular presentaggrates
present participleaggrating
past participleaggrated
pastaggrated

Origin of aggrate

From Italian aggradare /aggratare, from Latin aggrātāre.

Questions about aggrate

What does aggrate mean?
Aggrate means to gratify, cause pleasure to.
What part of speech is aggrate?
Aggrate is a verb.
What is the past tense of aggrate?
The past tense of aggrate is aggrated.

Words near aggrate in the dictionary

  1. aggrandizes
  2. aggrandizest
  3. aggrandizeth
  4. aggrandizing
  5. aggrandizings
  6. aggrate
  7. aggrated
  8. aggrates
  9. aggrating
  10. aggravable
  11. aggravatable

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