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inodiate

/ɪˈnəʊdieɪt/

inodiate verb: to make odious or hateful.

Verb

inodiate (third-person singular simple present inodiates, present participle inodiating, simple past and past participle inodiated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make odious or hateful.
    • he inflicts them for quite other Ends ; as partly to give the World fresh Demonstrations of his hatred of Sin , and partly to inodiate and inbitter Sin to the chastised Sinner1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London

Forms of inodiate

third-person singular presentinodiates
present participleinodiating
past participleinodiated
pastinodiated

Origin of inodiate

From in- (“in”) + Latin odium (“hatred”). Doublet of annoy.

Questions about inodiate

What does inodiate mean?
Inodiate means to make odious or hateful.
What part of speech is inodiate?
Inodiate is a verb.
How do you pronounce inodiate?
Inodiate is pronounced /ɪˈnəʊdieɪt/.
What is the past tense of inodiate?
The past tense of inodiate is inodiated.

Words near inodiate in the dictionary

  1. inoculums
  2. inoculus
  3. inocybe
  4. inode
  5. inodes
  6. inodiate
  7. inodiated
  8. inodiates
  9. inodiating
  10. inodilator
  11. inodilators

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