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coventrate

coventrate verb: to devastate by heavy bombing.

Verb

coventrate (third-person singular simple present coventrates, present participle coventrating, simple past and past participle coventrated)

  1. (transitive) To devastate by heavy bombing.
    Synonyms:
    coventrize

Synonyms of coventrate

Forms of coventrate

third-person singular presentcoventrates
present participlecoventrating
past participlecoventrated
pastcoventrated

Origin of coventrate

From Coventry + -ate (verb-forming suffix), following German coventrieren. Coventry, England, was devastated by German firebombing in November 1940, during World War II.

Words formed from coventrate

Questions about coventrate

What does coventrate mean?
Coventrate means to devastate by heavy bombing.
What part of speech is coventrate?
Coventrate is a verb.
What is the past tense of coventrate?
The past tense of coventrate is coventrated.

Words near coventrate in the dictionary

  1. Covent Garden agues
  2. Covent Garden nun
  3. Covent Garden nuns
  4. Covent Gardens
  5. coventilated
  6. coventrate
  7. coventrated
  8. coventrates
  9. coventrating
  10. Coventrian
  11. Coventrians

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