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osculates

osculates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of osculate.

Meaning of osculate

Verb

osculate (third-person singular simple present osculates, present participle osculating, simple past and past participle osculated)

  1. (ambitransitive) To kiss.
    • And in the Olmsted Hotel in Cleveland he surprised a porter and a maid lasciviously osculating in a stairwell.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
  2. To touch so as to have the same tangent and curvature at the point of contact.
  3. (intransitive) To make contact.
  4. (Vedic) To perform osculation.
  5. To form a connecting link between two genera.

See all 6 meanings of osculate

Questions about osculates

What is osculates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Osculates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of osculate.

Words near osculates in the dictionary

  1. osculants
  2. oscular
  3. oscularly
  4. osculate
  5. osculated
  6. osculates
  7. osculating
  8. osculating circle
  9. osculating circles
  10. osculating orbit
  11. osculating orbits

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