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insaniate

insaniate verb: to render unsound; to make mad.

Verb

insaniate (third-person singular simple present insaniates, present participle insaniating, simple past and past participle insaniated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To render unsound; to make mad.
    • Doth not the distemper of the body insaniate the ſoule?1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political

Forms of insaniate

third-person singular presentinsaniates
present participleinsaniating
past participleinsaniated
pastinsaniated

Origin of insaniate

See insane.

Questions about insaniate

What does insaniate mean?
Insaniate means to render unsound; to make mad.
What part of speech is insaniate?
Insaniate is a verb.
What is the past tense of insaniate?
The past tense of insaniate is insaniated.

Words near insaniate in the dictionary

  1. insanery
  2. insanest
  3. insangu
  4. insaniac
  5. insaniacs
  6. insaniate
  7. insaniated
  8. insaniates
  9. insaniating
  10. insanified
  11. insanifies

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