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imbecilitating

imbecilitating is the present participle and gerund of imbecilitate.

Meaning of imbecilitate

Verb

imbecilitate (third-person singular simple present imbecilitates, present participle imbecilitating, simple past and past participle imbecilitated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To weaken, as to the body or the mind; to enfeeble.
    • The man, being skilful in natural magick, did use all the artifices his subtilty could devise to imbecilitate the earl.1653, Arthur Wilson, The History of Great Britain, being the Life and Reign of King James I

Questions about imbecilitating

What is imbecilitating the present participle and gerund of?
Imbecilitating is the present participle and gerund of imbecilitate.

Words near imbecilitating in the dictionary

  1. imbecilification
  2. imbecilism
  3. imbecilitate
  4. imbecilitated
  5. imbecilitates
  6. imbecilitating
  7. imbecilities
  8. imbecility
  9. imbed
  10. imbeddable
  11. imbedded

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