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oscitate

oscitate verb: to gape or yawn.

Verb

oscitate (third-person singular simple present oscitates, present participle oscitating, simple past and past participle oscitated)

  1. (archaic) To gape or yawn.

oscitate meaning in Tamil

oscitate in Tamil

கொட்டாவி விடல்

Forms of oscitate

third-person singular presentoscitates
present participleoscitating
past participleoscitated
pastoscitated

Origin of oscitate

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin ōscitātus, perfect passive participle of ōscitō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ōs (“the mouth”) + citō (“to cause to move”).

Questions about oscitate

What does oscitate mean?
Oscitate means to gape or yawn.
What is oscitate in Tamil?
Oscitate in Tamil is கொட்டாவி விடல். See Oscitate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is oscitate?
Oscitate is a verb.
What is the past tense of oscitate?
The past tense of oscitate is oscitated.

Words near oscitate in the dictionary

  1. oscitance
  2. oscitancies
  3. oscitancy
  4. oscitant
  5. oscitantly
  6. oscitate
  7. oscitated
  8. oscitates
  9. oscitating
  10. oscitation
  11. oscitations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oscitate (page history and authors); oscitate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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