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funerate

funerate verb: to bury with funeral rites.

Verb

funerate (third-person singular simple present funerates, present participle funerating, simple past and past participle funerated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To bury with funeral rites.
    • my desideratum is , to be debonnairly funerated in a feateous requietoryJuly 4 1844, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, letter to Lorenzo Altisonant

Forms of funerate

third-person singular presentfunerates
present participlefunerating
past participlefunerated
pastfunerated

Origin of funerate

Borrowed from Latin fūnerātus, perfect passive participle of fūnerō (“to funerate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fūnus, fūneris (“a funeral”).

Questions about funerate

What does funerate mean?
Funerate means to bury with funeral rites.
What part of speech is funerate?
Funerate is a verb.
What is the past tense of funerate?
The past tense of funerate is funerated.

Words near funerate in the dictionary

  1. funerall
  2. funeralls
  3. funerals
  4. funerarily
  5. funerary
  6. funerate
  7. funerated
  8. funerates
  9. funerating
  10. funeration
  11. funerations

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