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conglutinate

/kəŋˈɡluːtɪneɪt/

conglutinate verb: to stick or glue together.

Verb

conglutinate (third-person singular simple present conglutinates, present participle conglutinating, simple past and past participle conglutinated)

  1. (ambitransitive) To stick or glue together.
  2. (ambitransitive) To join together, to unite.
    • Bones […] have had their broken parts conglutinated within three or four days.1671, Robert Boyle, Considerations touching the Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy, Part II
    Synonyms:
    join, knit

Adjective

IPA/kəŋˈɡluːtɪnət/

conglutinate (not comparable)

  1. (ambitransitive) Glued together; united, as by some adhesive substance.

Synonyms of conglutinate

All synonyms of conglutinate

Forms of conglutinate

third-person singular presentconglutinates
present participleconglutinating
past participleconglutinated
pastconglutinated

Origin of conglutinate

Inherited from Middle English conglutinaten (“(of a wound, broken bone, etc.) to knit, close up; to fasten; (figurative) to unite”), from conglutinat(e) (used as the past participle of conglutinaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin conglūtinātus, the perfect passive participle of conglūtinō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French conglutiner.

Inherited from Middle English conglutinat(e), see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.

Words formed from conglutinate

Questions about conglutinate

What does conglutinate mean?
Conglutinate means to stick or glue together.
What part of speech is conglutinate?
Conglutinate can be a verb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce conglutinate?
Conglutinate is pronounced /kəŋˈɡluːtɪneɪt/.
What is the past tense of conglutinate?
The past tense of conglutinate is conglutinated.

Words near conglutinate in the dictionary

  1. conglomerator
  2. conglomerators
  3. conglomeritic
  4. conglutin
  5. conglutinant
  6. conglutinate
  7. conglutinated
  8. conglutinates
  9. conglutinating
  10. conglutination
  11. conglutinations

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