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expeditate

/ɛksˈpɛdɪteɪt/

expeditate verb: to deprive of the claws or the balls of the forefeet.

Verb

expeditate (third-person singular simple present expeditates, present participle expeditating, simple past and past participle expeditated)

  1. (UK, obsolete, transitive, forest law) To deprive of the claws or the balls of the forefeet.
    • They expeditated the dogs, to stop them chasing deer.

Forms of expeditate

third-person singular presentexpeditates
present participleexpeditating
past participleexpeditated
pastexpeditated

Origin of expeditate

From Latin expeditatus, past participle of expeditare (“to expeditate”), from ex (“out”) + ped- (“foot”).

Words formed from expeditate

Questions about expeditate

What does expeditate mean?
Expeditate means to deprive of the claws or the balls of the forefeet.
What part of speech is expeditate?
Expeditate is a verb.
How do you pronounce expeditate?
Expeditate is pronounced /ɛksˈpɛdɪteɪt/.
What is the past tense of expeditate?
The past tense of expeditate is expeditated.

Words near expeditate in the dictionary

  1. expediently
  2. expedients
  3. expediment
  4. expediments
  5. expeding
  6. expeditate
  7. expeditated
  8. expeditates
  9. expeditating
  10. expeditation
  11. expeditations

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