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insidiate

insidiate verb: to lie in ambush for.

Verb

insidiate (third-person singular simple present insidiates, present participle insidiating, simple past and past participle insidiated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To lie in ambush for.
    • he afterwards long sought all advantages how to insidiate his life1641, Thomas Heywood, The Life of Merlin […]

Forms of insidiate

third-person singular presentinsidiates
present participleinsidiating
past participleinsidiated
pastinsidiated

Origin of insidiate

From Latin insidiatus, past participle of insidiare (“to lie in ambush”), from insidiae. See insidious.

Questions about insidiate

What does insidiate mean?
Insidiate means to lie in ambush for.
What part of speech is insidiate?
Insidiate is a verb.
What is the past tense of insidiate?
The past tense of insidiate is insidiated.

Words near insidiate in the dictionary

  1. insiderness
  2. insiders
  3. insidery
  4. insides
  5. inside–outside–beginning
  6. insidiate
  7. insidiated
  8. insidiates
  9. insidiator
  10. insidiators
  11. insidiosities

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