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herniates

herniates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of herniate.

Meaning of herniate

Verb

herniate (third-person singular simple present herniates, present participle herniating, simple past and past participle herniated)

  1. (intransitive) Of a tissue, structure, or part of an organ: to protrude through the muscular tissue or the membrane by which it is normally contained, causing a hernia.
    • When the small intestine herniates into the groin, one has an inguinal hernia.

Questions about herniates

What is herniates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Herniates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of herniate.

Words near herniates in the dictionary

  1. herniarin
  2. herniary
  3. hernias
  4. herniate
  5. herniated
  6. herniates
  7. herniating
  8. herniation
  9. herniations
  10. Hernican
  11. Hernicans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: herniates (page history and authors); herniate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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