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difficilitate

difficilitate verb: to make difficult.

Verb

difficilitate (third-person singular simple present difficilitates, present participle difficilitating, simple past and past participle difficilitated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make difficult.
    • The German syntax is replete with irregularities , one of the means by which that too indegestible language , as the Italians term it , is difficilitated.1825, Samuel Oliver, A General Critical Grammar of the Inglish Language

Forms of difficilitate

third-person singular presentdifficilitates
present participledifficilitating
past participledifficilitated
pastdifficilitated

Origin of difficilitate

From Classical Latin difficilis + -itate. By surface analysis, difficile + -itate.

Questions about difficilitate

What does difficilitate mean?
Difficilitate means to make difficult.
What part of speech is difficilitate?
Difficilitate is a verb.
What is the past tense of difficilitate?
The past tense of difficilitate is difficilitated.

Words near difficilitate in the dictionary

  1. Diffeys
  2. diffical techniculties
  3. difficidin
  4. difficile
  5. difficileness
  6. difficilitate
  7. difficilitated
  8. difficilitates
  9. difficilitating
  10. difficult
  11. difficult nut to crack

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