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lugubriated

lugubriated is the simple past and past participle of lugubriate.

Meaning of lugubriate

Verb

lugubriate (third-person singular simple present lugubriates, present participle lugubriating, simple past and past participle lugubriated)

  1. (intransitive, rare, transitive) To render, become, or be lugubrious.
  2. (intransitive, rare) To be the etiology of lugubriousness in general.
    • Such litanies of equilibrium in economics annually agitate the Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland, and lugubriate in the worldly wisdom of such sages.2011, John Mauldin, Just One Thing: Twelve of the World's Best Investors Reveal the One Strategy You Can't Overlook, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (unpaginated)

Questions about lugubriated

What is lugubriated the simple past and past participle of?
Lugubriated is the simple past and past participle of lugubriate.

Words near lugubriated in the dictionary

  1. lugsill
  2. lugsills
  3. lugsome
  4. Lugton
  5. lugubriate
  6. lugubriated
  7. lugubriates
  8. lugubriating
  9. lugubriosity
  10. lugubrious
  11. lugubriously

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