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enubilate

enubilate verb: to clear from mist, clouds, or obscurity.

Verb

enubilate (third-person singular simple present enubilates, present participle enubilating, simple past and past participle enubilated)

  1. (rare, transitive) To clear from mist, clouds, or obscurity.
    • Maeterlinck is gradually enubilating himself from those enchanted mists in which first he strayed.1903, “Saturday Reviews”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

Forms of enubilate

third-person singular presentenubilates
present participleenubilating
past participleenubilated
pastenubilated

Origin of enubilate

From Latin ēnūbilātus, past participle of ēnūbilāre (“to enubilate”), from ē- (“out”) + nūbila (“clouds”), from nūbilis (“cloudy”), nūbēs (“cloud”). By surface analysis, e- + Latin nubil- + -ate.

Questions about enubilate

What does enubilate mean?
Enubilate means to clear from mist, clouds, or obscurity.
What part of speech is enubilate?
Enubilate is a verb.
What is the past tense of enubilate?
The past tense of enubilate is enubilated.

Words near enubilate in the dictionary

  1. Entzes
  2. Entzminger
  3. Entzmingers
  4. enté en point
  5. enté en pointe
  6. enubilate
  7. enubilated
  8. enubilates
  9. enubilating
  10. enubilous
  11. enucleable

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