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cacuminate

cacuminate verb: to make sharp or pointed.

Verb

cacuminate (third-person singular simple present cacuminates, present participle cacuminating, simple past and past participle cacuminated)

  1. (obsolete) To make sharp or pointed.

Forms of cacuminate

third-person singular presentcacuminates
present participlecacuminating
past participlecacuminated
pastcacuminated

Origin of cacuminate

From oblique stem of Latin cacūmen, cacūminis (“extremity, point, peak”) + -al, ultimately from Latin cacūminātus, past participle of cacūminō, from cacūmen.

Questions about cacuminate

What does cacuminate mean?
Cacuminate means to make sharp or pointed.
What part of speech is cacuminate?
Cacuminate is a verb.
What is the past tense of cacuminate?
The past tense of cacuminate is cacuminated.

Words near cacuminate in the dictionary

  1. cacumen
  2. cacumina
  3. cacuminal
  4. cacuminalization
  5. cacuminals
  6. cacuminate
  7. cacuminated
  8. cacuminates
  9. cacuminating
  10. cacuminous
  11. Cacán

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