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miscegenate

miscegenate verb: to mix or blend.

Verb

miscegenate (third-person singular simple present miscegenates, present participle miscegenating, simple past and past participle miscegenated)

  1. To mix or blend.
  2. To mix or blend races in marriage, or in breeding.
    • Tigons, ligers and a zeedonk have also been created by miscegenating mammals.1985, Hartson & Dawson, The Ultimate Irrelevant Encyclopedia, page 66

Noun

miscegenate (plural miscegenates)

  1. A person born as a result of miscegenation.
    • The other [house was] that of ‘the Thompsons’, an ubiquitous and energetic band of half-breeds—miscegenates of mingled Indian, Negro or gypsy blood.1931, Theodore Dreiser, Dawn

Forms of miscegenate

Verb
third-person singular presentmiscegenates
present participlemiscegenating
past participlemiscegenated
pastmiscegenated
Noun
pluralmiscegenates

Origin of miscegenate

Back-formation from miscegenation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix).

Words formed from miscegenate

Questions about miscegenate

What does miscegenate mean?
Miscegenate means to mix or blend.
What part of speech is miscegenate?
Miscegenate can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of miscegenate?
The past tense of miscegenate is miscegenated.

Words near miscegenate in the dictionary

  1. miscaught
  2. Miscavige
  3. Miscaviges
  4. misceability
  5. miscegen
  6. miscegenate
  7. miscegenated
  8. miscegenates
  9. miscegenating
  10. miscegenation
  11. miscegenational

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