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orbate

orbate adjective: bereft (of anything); especially: fatherless or childless.

Adjective

orbate (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Bereft (of anything); especially: fatherless or childless.

Origin of orbate

Borrowed from Latin orbātus, perfect passive participle of orbō (“to cause to be childless or parentless; to bereave”), from orbus (“bereft of parents or children”); see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Questions about orbate

What does orbate mean?
Orbate means bereft (of anything); especially: fatherless or childless.
What part of speech is orbate?
Orbate is an adjective.

Words near orbate in the dictionary

  1. Orbanisation
  2. Orbanism
  3. Orbanization
  4. Orbanomics
  5. ORBAT
  6. orbate
  7. orbatide
  8. orbatides
  9. orbation
  10. Orbaugh
  11. orbe

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