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inquinate

/ˈɪnkwɪneɪt/

inquinate verb: to pollute or make dirty.

Verb

inquinate (third-person singular simple present inquinates, present participle inquinating, simple past and past participle inquinated)

  1. (formal) To pollute or make dirty.
    Synonyms:
    assoil, befoul, sully, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth

inquinate meaning in Tamil and Bengali

inquinate in Tamil

மாசுபடுத்து, அழுக்காக்கு, கறையுண்டாக்கு, அசுத்தப்படுத்து

inquinate in Bengali

দূষিত করা, নোংরা করা

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Forms of inquinate

third-person singular presentinquinates
present participleinquinating
past participleinquinated
pastinquinated

Origin of inquinate

From Latin inquināre (“polluting”).

Questions about inquinate

What does inquinate mean?
Inquinate means to pollute or make dirty.
What is inquinate in Tamil?
Inquinate in Tamil is மாசுபடுத்து, அழுக்காக்கு, கறையுண்டாக்கு. See Inquinate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is inquinate?
Inquinate is a verb.
How do you pronounce inquinate?
Inquinate is pronounced /ˈɪnkwɪneɪt/.
What is the past tense of inquinate?
The past tense of inquinate is inquinated.

Words near inquinate in the dictionary

  1. inquiline
  2. inquilines
  3. inquilinism
  4. inquilino
  5. inquilinous
  6. inquinate
  7. inquinated
  8. inquinates
  9. inquinating
  10. inquination
  11. inquinations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inquinate (page history and authors); inquinate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inquinate (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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