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conglobe

Syllables: con·globe/kəŋˈɡləʊb/US/kəŋˈɡloʊb/

conglobe verb: to collect (something) into a round mass; to conglobate.

Verb

conglobe (third-person singular simple present conglobes, present participle conglobing, simple past and past participle conglobed)

  1. (ambitransitive, archaic, poetic) To collect (something) into a round mass; to conglobate.
    • Not closer, orb in orb, conglob’d are seen / The buzzing Bees about their dusky Queen.1667, Alexander Pope, “Book IV”, in The Dunciad^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Dunciad_-_Alexander_Pope_(1728).djvu/194), page 163
    • Thither they / Hasted with glad precipitance, up-rolled, / As drops on dust conglobing, from the dry;1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost, Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, page 239

Forms of conglobe

third-person singular presentconglobes
present participleconglobing
past participleconglobed
pastconglobed

Origin of conglobe

PIE word *ḱóm From French conglober, from Latin conglobāre, the present active infinitive of conglobō (“to gather into a ball; to accumulate; to crowd together”), from con- (prefix denoting a being or bringing together of several objects) + globus (“round object, globe, sphere; glob; group”) (from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to form into a ball; a ball”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

Words that rhyme with conglobe

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Questions about conglobe

What does conglobe mean?
Conglobe means to collect (something) into a round mass; to conglobate.
What part of speech is conglobe?
Conglobe is a verb.
How do you pronounce conglobe?
Conglobe is pronounced /kəŋˈɡləʊb/ (UK).
What is the past tense of conglobe?
The past tense of conglobe is conglobed.

Words near conglobe in the dictionary

  1. conglobates
  2. conglobatin
  3. conglobating
  4. conglobation
  5. conglobations
  6. conglobe
  7. conglobed
  8. conglobes
  9. conglobing
  10. conglobulate
  11. conglobulated

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