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dilaniates

dilaniates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dilaniate.

Meaning of dilaniate

Verb

dilaniate (third-person singular simple present dilaniates, present participle dilaniating, simple past and past participle dilaniated)

  1. (obsolete) To rend in pieces; to tear.
    • For although ſix abſolute Princes were interreſſed in the quarrel, and that they had all juſt pretences, and were heated and heightned in their deſignes, yet rather than they would dilaniat the entrailes of their owne mother (faire Italy) and expoſe her thereby to be raviſh'd by Tramontanes, they...1644, James Howell, England’s Teares, for the Present Wars, […], London: […] Richard Heron, →OCLC, page 12

Questions about dilaniates

What is dilaniates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Dilaniates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dilaniate.

Words near dilaniates in the dictionary

  1. Dilan
  2. Dilanian
  3. Dilanians
  4. dilaniate
  5. dilaniated
  6. dilaniates
  7. dilaniation
  8. dilanthanum
  9. dilapidate
  10. dilapidated
  11. dilapidatedly

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