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eventrate

eventrate verb: to open the bowels of, disembowel.

Verb

eventrate (third-person singular simple present eventrates, present participle eventrating, simple past and past participle eventrated)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To open the bowels of, disembowel.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To protrude through a defect or weakness in the abdominal wall, to come out of one's belly.

Forms of eventrate

third-person singular presenteventrates
present participleeventrating
past participleeventrated
pasteventrated

Origin of eventrate

Back-formation from eventration on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix) or directly derived from French éventrer. Compare eventerate.

Questions about eventrate

What does eventrate mean?
Eventrate means to open the bowels of, disembowel.
What part of speech is eventrate?
Eventrate is a verb.
What is the past tense of eventrate?
The past tense of eventrate is eventrated.

Words near eventrate in the dictionary

  1. eventlike
  2. eventness
  3. eventological
  4. eventologically
  5. eventology
  6. eventrate
  7. eventrated
  8. eventrates
  9. eventrating
  10. eventration
  11. eventrations

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