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ferruminate

ferruminate verb: to solder, fuse together, merge or unite, as if metals.

Verb

ferruminate (third-person singular simple present ferruminates, present participle ferruminating, simple past and past participle ferruminated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive, usually figurativr) To solder, fuse together, merge or unite, as if metals.
    • c. 1810-1820?, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Ben Jonson
      too many other passages ferruminated by Jonson from Seneca's tragedies and the writings of the later Romans

Forms of ferruminate

third-person singular presentferruminates
present participleferruminating
past participleferruminated
pastferruminated

Origin of ferruminate

Borrowed from Latin ferrūminātus, perfect passive participle of ferrūminō (“to cement, solder”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ferrūmen (“cement”).

Questions about ferruminate

What does ferruminate mean?
Ferruminate means to solder, fuse together, merge or unite, as if metals.
What part of speech is ferruminate?
Ferruminate is a verb.
What is the past tense of ferruminate?
The past tense of ferruminate is ferruminated.

Words near ferruminate in the dictionary

  1. ferruler
  2. ferrulers
  3. ferrules
  4. ferruling
  5. ferrum
  6. ferruminate
  7. ferruminated
  8. ferruminates
  9. ferruminating
  10. ferrumination
  11. ferrums

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