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conculcate

conculcate verb: to tread or trample underfoot.

Verb

conculcate (third-person singular simple present conculcates, present participle conculcating, simple past and past participle conculcated)

  1. (figuratively, obsolete, often, transitive) To tread or trample underfoot.

Adjective

conculcate (comparative more conculcate, superlative most conculcate)

  1. (figuratively, obsolete, often) Despised, disregarded, trampled.
    • […] the sorrowful world of men: / Old castles fired, old mountains overturned, / Old majesties conculcate in the dust […]1904, James Elroy Flecker, Lucretia

Forms of conculcate

Verb
third-person singular presentconculcates
present participleconculcating
past participleconculcated
pastconculcated
Adjective
comparativemore conculcate
superlativemost conculcate

Origin of conculcate

Borrowed from Latin conculcatus, past participle of conculcare (“to conculcate”).

Questions about conculcate

What does conculcate mean?
Conculcate means to tread or trample underfoot.
What part of speech is conculcate?
Conculcate can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of conculcate?
The past tense of conculcate is conculcated.

Words near conculcate in the dictionary

  1. concubines
  2. concubinious
  3. concubinous
  4. concubitancy
  5. concubitant
  6. conculcate
  7. conculcated
  8. conculcates
  9. conculcating
  10. conculture
  11. concultures

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