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eventerate

eventerate verb: to rip open; to disembowel.

Verb

eventerate (third-person singular simple present eventerates, present participle eventerating, simple past and past participle eventerated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To rip open; to disembowel.

Forms of eventerate

third-person singular presenteventerates
present participleeventerating
past participleeventerated
pasteventerated

Origin of eventerate

Likely a "relatinized" calque of French éventrer, from Latin ē(x)- (“out”) + Latin venter (“belly”, ventr- in compounds) + -ate (verb-forming suffix); this should have given *eventrate, compare its obsolete doublet eventrate and orienate.

Questions about eventerate

What does eventerate mean?
Eventerate means to rip open; to disembowel.
What part of speech is eventerate?
Eventerate is a verb.
What is the past tense of eventerate?
The past tense of eventerate is eventerated.

Words near eventerate in the dictionary

  1. event-goers
  2. event-related potential
  3. event-related potentials
  4. evented
  5. eventer
  6. eventerate
  7. eventerated
  8. eventerates
  9. eventerating
  10. eventers
  11. eventful

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