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eructate

eructate verb: to belch, to burp.

Verb

eructate (third-person singular simple present eructates, present participle eructating, simple past and past participle eructated)

  1. (formal, intransitive) To belch, to burp.
    • Pain in the right side of the throat, as from an ulcery sensation or as if a splinter were lodged in the throat, when swallowing, eructating, breathing, stretching and moving the neck.1850, Erastus Edgerton Marcy, John Charles Peters, Otto Füllgraff, The Elements of a New Materia Medica and Therapeutics, page 400
    • What hours have I paced those platforms, endlessly, hopelessly, where the draughts of Siberia and the solstice heats of Ecuador focus their unscrupling rigours on the eructated passenger.1928, Robert Byron, “Frankfort”, in The Station: Athos: Treasures and Men, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC, page 189

Forms of eructate

third-person singular presenteructates
present participleeructating
past participleeructated
pasteructated

Origin of eructate

Learned borrowing from Latin ēructātus, from the verb ēructō.

Words formed from eructate

Questions about eructate

What does eructate mean?
Eructate means to belch, to burp.
What part of speech is eructate?
Eructate is a verb.
What is the past tense of eructate?
The past tense of eructate is eructated.

Words near eructate in the dictionary

  1. erucifoline
  2. eruciform
  3. erucin
  4. erucism
  5. eruct
  6. eructate
  7. eructated
  8. eructates
  9. eructating
  10. eructation
  11. eructations

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