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inviscating

inviscating is the present participle and gerund of inviscate.

Meaning of inviscate

Verb

inviscate (third-person singular simple present inviscates, present participle inviscating, simple past and past participle inviscated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To daub, catch, or entangle with glue or birdlime or other viscous matter.
    • […] withall its food being flies and such as suddenly escape, it hath in the tongue a mucous and slymy extremity, whereby upon a sudden emission it inviscates and tangleth those insects.1650, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book 3, Chap. 21, "Of the Cameleon"

Questions about inviscating

What is inviscating the present participle and gerund of?
Inviscating is the present participle and gerund of inviscate.

Words near inviscating in the dictionary

  1. invirons
  2. invis
  3. inviscate
  4. inviscated
  5. inviscates
  6. inviscating
  7. inviscation
  8. inviscerate
  9. inviscid
  10. inviscid flow
  11. inviscid fluid

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