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instates

instates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of instate.

Meaning of instate

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

Questions about instates

What is instates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Instates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of instate.

Words near instates in the dictionary

  1. Instastorying
  2. instate
  3. instated
  4. instatement
  5. instatements
  6. instates
  7. Instathot
  8. Instathots
  9. instating
  10. instaunce
  11. instaunces

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