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cadaverate

cadaverate verb: to make lifeless; to reduce to dead matter.

Verb

cadaverate (third-person singular simple present cadaverates, present participle cadaverating, simple past and past participle cadaverated)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To make lifeless; to reduce to dead matter.
    • [Excrementa] […] which […] are by the heat of the body cadaverated, and cast forth.1658, George Starkey, Natures explication and Helmont's vindication, section III
    • Could lovers […], with the wretched selfish jealousy of a modern marriage-maker, seek to cadaverate affection and to pervert each other into a utensil, a commodity, a thing appropriate to self and liable with other lumber to be cast aside?1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. V, letter 85

Forms of cadaverate

third-person singular presentcadaverates
present participlecadaverating
past participlecadaverated
pastcadaverated

Origin of cadaverate

From Latin cadāver + -ate.

Questions about cadaverate

What does cadaverate mean?
Cadaverate means to make lifeless; to reduce to dead matter.
What part of speech is cadaverate?
Cadaverate is a verb.
What is the past tense of cadaverate?
The past tense of cadaverate is cadaverated.

Words near cadaverate in the dictionary

  1. cadastres
  2. cadaver
  3. cadaver dog
  4. cadaver dogs
  5. cadavera
  6. cadaverate
  7. cadaveric
  8. cadaveric alkaloid
  9. cadaveric alkaloids
  10. cadaveric spasm
  11. cadaveric spasms

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