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delignate

delignate verb: to clear or strip of wood.

Verb

delignate (third-person singular simple present delignates, present participle delignating, simple past and past participle delignated)

  1. (rare, transitive) To clear or strip of wood.
    • It moves me much his accusation of covetousness , dilapidating , or rather delignating , his bishopric1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
    • The machine gave a smoothly delignated ribbon, with small percentage of woody waste, save in a few stalks […]1893, Experiment Station Record, volume 4, page 430

Forms of delignate

third-person singular presentdelignates
present participledelignating
past participledelignated
pastdelignated

Origin of delignate

From de- + lign- + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Questions about delignate

What does delignate mean?
Delignate means to clear or strip of wood.
What part of speech is delignate?
Delignate is a verb.
What is the past tense of delignate?
The past tense of delignate is delignated.

Words near delignate in the dictionary

  1. delights
  2. delights in
  3. delightsome
  4. delightsomely
  5. delightsomeness
  6. delignate
  7. delignated
  8. delignates
  9. delignating
  10. delignification
  11. delignifications

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