Word.ws English Dictionary

inquinates

inquinates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of inquinate.

Meaning of inquinate

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

Questions about inquinates

What is inquinates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Inquinates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of inquinate.

Words near inquinates in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: inquinates (page history and authors); inquinate (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “inquinates.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/inquinates. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.