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gladiates

gladiates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gladiate.

Meaning of gladiate

Verb

gladiate (third-person singular simple present gladiates, present participle gladiating, simple past and past participle gladiated)

  1. To fight as a gladiator, to digladiate.
    • You could try and take us (oh, oh),
      but we're the gladiators (oh, oh)
      […]
      We gladiate, but I guess we're really fighting ourselves […]2013, Lorde, Glory and Gore: Pure Heroine

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Questions about gladiates

What is gladiates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Gladiates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gladiate.

Words near gladiates in the dictionary

  1. Gladhill
  2. Gladhills
  3. gladial
  4. gladiate
  5. gladiated
  6. gladiates
  7. gladiating
  8. gladiation
  9. gladiator
  10. gladiatored
  11. gladiatorial

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