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nubilate

nubilate verb: to cloud or obscure.

Verb

nubilate (third-person singular simple present nubilates, present participle nubilating, simple past and past participle nubilated)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To cloud or obscure

Forms of nubilate

third-person singular presentnubilates
present participlenubilating
past participlenubilated
pastnubilated

Origin of nubilate

Borrowed from Latin nūbilātus, perfect passive participle of nūbilō (“to cloud”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from nūbila (“clouds”). By surface analysis, Latin nubil- + -ate.

Questions about nubilate

What does nubilate mean?
Nubilate means to cloud or obscure.
What part of speech is nubilate?
Nubilate is a verb.
What is the past tense of nubilate?
The past tense of nubilate is nubilated.

Words near nubilate in the dictionary

  1. Nubieber
  2. nubies
  3. nubiferous
  4. nubiform
  5. nubigenous
  6. nubilate
  7. nubilated
  8. nubilates
  9. nubilating
  10. nubilation
  11. nubile

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