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masculate

masculate verb: to make strong.

Verb

masculate (third-person singular simple present masculates, present participle masculating, simple past and past participle masculated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make strong.
    • Great spiders watched his toil with globose eyes,
      And pined with empty masculated jaws1878, Meta Orred, Berthold, and Other Poems

Forms of masculate

third-person singular presentmasculates
present participlemasculating
past participlemasculated
pastmasculated

Origin of masculate

First attested in 1623; either from Latin masculus (“male, masculine”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix) or a back-formation from emasculate.

Questions about masculate

What does masculate mean?
Masculate means to make strong.
What part of speech is masculate?
Masculate is a verb.
What is the past tense of masculate?
The past tense of masculate is masculated.

Words near masculate in the dictionary

  1. Mascouten
  2. Mascoutin
  3. mascs
  4. mascs.
  5. mascularity
  6. masculate
  7. masculated
  8. masculates
  9. masculating
  10. masculation
  11. mascule

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