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evagate

evagate verb: to wander.

Verb

evagate (third-person singular simple present evagates, present participle evagating, simple past and past participle evagated)

  1. To wander.
    • If, on the contrary, a placid and sleep-cemented satisfaction prevails in it, we quickly rid ourselves of a card, and evagate, or wander1840, Colburn's Kalendar of Amusements in Town and Country, for 1840

Forms of evagate

third-person singular presentevagates
present participleevagating
past participleevagated
pastevagated

Origin of evagate

From Latin evagor.

Questions about evagate

What does evagate mean?
Evagate means to wander.
What part of speech is evagate?
Evagate is a verb.
What is the past tense of evagate?
The past tense of evagate is evagated.

Words near evagate in the dictionary

  1. evadeth
  2. evadible
  3. evading
  4. evadingly
  5. Evadne
  6. evagate
  7. evagation
  8. evagations
  9. evaginable
  10. evaginate
  11. evaginated

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