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instate

/ɪnˈsteɪt/

instate verb: to install (someone) in office; to establish. Also the alternative form of in-state.

Verb

instate (third-person singular simple present instates, present participle instating, simple past and past participle instated)

  1. (transitive) To install (someone) in office; to establish.
    • Except that in the rest of society there was sex aplenty, with the hedonism of “the Sixties” almost officially instated as dogma, and the slow, surreptitious growth of this consensus to the then unguessed-at status of “correctness.”2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 175

Also used as

instate is also the alternative form of in-state.

Forms of instate

third-person singular presentinstates
present participleinstating
past participleinstated
pastinstated

Past tense of instate: instated

Origin of instate

From in- + state (noun).

Words formed from instate

Words that rhyme with instate

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Questions about instate

What does instate mean?
Instate means to install (someone) in office; to establish.
What part of speech is instate?
Instate is a verb.
How do you pronounce instate?
Instate is pronounced /ɪnˈsteɪt/.
What is the past tense of instate?
The past tense of instate is instated.

Words near instate in the dictionary

  1. Instashit
  2. Instastoried
  3. Instastories
  4. Instastory
  5. Instastorying
  6. instate
  7. instated
  8. instatement
  9. instatements
  10. instates
  11. Instathot

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