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conglaciate

conglaciate verb: to turn to ice; to freeze.

Verb

conglaciate (third-person singular simple present conglaciates, present participle conglaciating, simple past and past participle conglaciated)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn to ice; to freeze.
    • Neither doth there any thing properly conglaciate but water, or watery humiditys1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Forms of conglaciate

third-person singular presentconglaciates
present participleconglaciating
past participleconglaciated
pastconglaciated

Origin of conglaciate

From Latin conglaciatus, past participle of conglaciare.

Questions about conglaciate

What does conglaciate mean?
Conglaciate means to turn to ice; to freeze.
What part of speech is conglaciate?
Conglaciate is a verb.
What is the past tense of conglaciate?
The past tense of conglaciate is conglaciated.

Words near conglaciate in the dictionary

  1. congis
  2. Congis-sur-Thérouanne
  3. congius
  4. congiuses
  5. congkak
  6. conglaciate
  7. conglaciated
  8. conglaciates
  9. conglaciating
  10. conglaciation
  11. conglaciations

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