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cohobate

cohobate verb: to treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate.

Verb

cohobate (third-person singular simple present cohobates, present participle cohobating, simple past and past participle cohobated)

  1. (physical) To treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate.

Noun

cohobate (plural cohobates)

  1. The concentrated distillate so formed

Forms of cohobate

Verb
third-person singular presentcohobates
present participlecohobating
past participlecohobated
pastcohobated
Noun
pluralcohobates

Origin of cohobate

From New Latin cohobātus, past participle of cohobāre, perhaps from Arabic كَعَّبَ (kaʕʕaba).

Questions about cohobate

What does cohobate mean?
Cohobate means to treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate.
What part of speech is cohobate?
Cohobate can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of cohobate?
The past tense of cohobate is cohobated.

Words near cohobate in the dictionary

  1. Cohns
  2. coho
  3. coho salmon
  4. cohoba
  5. cohobas
  6. cohobate
  7. cohobated
  8. cohobates
  9. cohobating
  10. cohobation
  11. cohobations

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