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constuprate

constuprate verb: to rape, violate.

Verb

constuprate (third-person singular simple present constuprates, present participle constuprating, simple past and past participle constuprated)

  1. (obsolete) To rape, violate.
    • Anno 1527, when Rome was sacked by Burbonius,[…]their wives and loveliest daughters constuprated by every base cullion, as Sejanus' daughter was by the hangman in public […].1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section...

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Forms of constuprate

third-person singular presentconstuprates
present participleconstuprating
past participleconstuprated
pastconstuprated

Origin of constuprate

Borrowed from Latin constuprātus, perfect passive participle of constuprō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from con- + stuprum (“dishonor, shame”) + -ō.

Questions about constuprate

What does constuprate mean?
Constuprate means to rape, violate.
What part of speech is constuprate?
Constuprate is a verb.
What is the past tense of constuprate?
The past tense of constuprate is constuprated.

Words near constuprate in the dictionary

  1. construing
  2. construings
  3. consts
  4. consts.
  5. constult
  6. constuprate
  7. constuprated
  8. constuprates
  9. constuprating
  10. constupration
  11. constuprations

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