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enflagellate

enflagellate is the alternative form of flagellate.

Meaning of flagellate

Verb

flagellate (third-person singular simple present flagellates, present participle flagellating, simple past and past participle flagellated)

  1. (transitive) To whip or scourge.
    • Red welts rising from a flagellated back1976 December 11, David Holland, “A Conversation With Maitresse”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 13
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To harshly chide or chastise, to reprimand.
  3. (transitive) Of a spermatozoon, to move its tail back and forth.
    • The gigantic egg sits, and the frantic and tiny sperm flagellates its tail to cross vast distances on its quest for dissolution in the huge egg.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 63

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Forms of enflagellate

third-person singular presentenflagellates
present participleenflagellating
past participleenflagellated
pastenflagellated

Questions about enflagellate

What is enflagellate the alternative form of?
Enflagellate is the alternative form of flagellate.

Words near enflagellate in the dictionary

  1. enfixes
  2. enfixing
  3. enfixt
  4. ENFJ
  5. ENFJs
  6. enflagellate
  7. enflagellation
  8. enflagellations
  9. enflame
  10. enflamed
  11. enflamedst

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