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opacates

opacates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of opacate.

Meaning of opacate

Verb

opacate (third-person singular simple present opacates, present participle opacating, simple past and past participle opacated)

  1. (archaic) To darken; to cloud.
    • […] when the same corpuscles, upon the unstopping of the glass, were put into a new motion, and disposed after a new manner, they did opacate that part of the air they moved in.1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the...

Questions about opacates

What is opacates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Opacates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of opacate.

Words near opacates in the dictionary

  1. opabiniids
  2. OPAC
  3. opacarophilia
  4. opacate
  5. opacated
  6. opacates
  7. opacating
  8. opacifiable
  9. opacification
  10. opacifications
  11. opacified

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