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deturbate

deturbate verb: to evict; to remove.

Verb

deturbate (third-person singular simple present deturbates, present participle deturbating, simple past and past participle deturbated)

  1. (obsolete) To evict; to remove.
    • And where is now , Master Cope , this your rejecting , expelling , removing , expulsing , exempting , deturbating and thrusting out , of Anatholius , Sother , Dorothea , and other holy saints , out of catalogues , fasts , and calendars?1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC

Forms of deturbate

third-person singular presentdeturbates
present participledeturbating
past participledeturbated
pastdeturbated

Origin of deturbate

First attested in 1570; Borrowed from Latin dēturbātus, perfect passive participle of dēturbō (“to beat, throw down; to deprive of”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Questions about deturbate

What does deturbate mean?
Deturbate means to evict; to remove.
What part of speech is deturbate?
Deturbate is a verb.
What is the past tense of deturbate?
The past tense of deturbate is deturbated.

Words near deturbate in the dictionary

  1. detunicated
  2. detuning
  3. detunings
  4. detur
  5. deturb
  6. deturbate
  7. deturbated
  8. deturbates
  9. deturbating
  10. deturbation
  11. deturbations

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