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lancinates

lancinates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lancinate.

Meaning of lancinate

Verb

lancinate (third-person singular simple present lancinates, present participle lancinating, simple past and past participle lancinated)

  1. (transitive) To pierce or stab (as with a lance); to lance.
    • Through a minuscule pinhole in that lead block, he could now direct tiny, controlled doses of a furiously potent beam of X-rays [...] to lancinate any cancer cell to death.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 159

Questions about lancinates

What is lancinates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lancinates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lancinate.

Words near lancinates in the dictionary

  1. lanciers
  2. lanciform
  3. lancin
  4. lancinate
  5. lancinated
  6. lancinates
  7. lancinating
  8. lancination
  9. lancinations
  10. lancing
  11. lancings

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