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auscultate

auscultate verb: to listen (for example to the heart or lungs) by auscultation; to examine by auscultation.

Verb

auscultate (third-person singular simple present auscultates, present participle auscultating, simple past and past participle auscultated)

  1. (transitive) To listen (for example to the heart or lungs) by auscultation; to examine by auscultation.
    • The doctor, listening past him, had had the same bovine stare as when he was auscultating.1969, Hortense Calisher, chapter 3, in The New Yorkers,, Boston: Little, Brown, page 123

auscultate meaning in Tamil and Arabic

auscultate in Tamil

ஒலிகேட்பு, கேட்டறிதல், கேட்டு உணர்தல், கேட்டல் மூலம் சோதி

auscultate in Arabic

to practice auscultation
تَسَمَّعَ tasammaʕa

Forms of auscultate

third-person singular presentauscultates
present participleauscultating
past participleauscultated
pastauscultated

Origin of auscultate

Back-formation from auscultation.

Questions about auscultate

What does auscultate mean?
Auscultate means to listen (for example to the heart or lungs) by auscultation; to examine by auscultation.
What is auscultate in Tamil?
Auscultate in Tamil is ஒலிகேட்பு, கேட்டறிதல், கேட்டு உணர்தல். See Auscultate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is auscultate?
Auscultate is a verb.
What is the past tense of auscultate?
The past tense of auscultate is auscultated.

Words near auscultate in the dictionary

  1. Ausburns
  2. Auscam
  3. Auschwitz
  4. auscult
  5. auscultable
  6. auscultate
  7. auscultated
  8. auscultates
  9. auscultating
  10. auscultation
  11. auscultations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: auscultate (page history and authors); auscultate (Tamil 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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