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balbutiates

balbutiates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of balbutiate.

Meaning of balbutiate

Verb

balbutiate (third-person singular simple present balbutiates, present participle balbutiating, simple past and past participle balbutiated)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To stammer.
    • five times in foure and twenty houres praying (or rather balbutiating) orderly1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC

Questions about balbutiates

What is balbutiates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Balbutiates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of balbutiate.

Words near balbutiates in the dictionary

  1. balbucinating
  2. Balbuena
  3. Balbuenas
  4. balbutiate
  5. balbutiated
  6. balbutiates
  7. balbutiating
  8. balbutient
  9. balbuties
  10. Balby
  11. balc'nies

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