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posticipate

posticipate verb: to do something later, when the time has come.

Verb

posticipate (third-person singular simple present posticipates, present participle posticipating, simple past and past participle posticipated)

  1. (intransitive) To do something later, when the time has come.
    Synonyms:
    postpone

Synonyms of posticipate

Forms of posticipate

third-person singular presentposticipates
present participleposticipating
past participleposticipated
pastposticipated

Origin of posticipate

From the Latin verb posticipare, composed of post (“later, after”) + cipare (“as in cipere, to take part”).

Questions about posticipate

What does posticipate mean?
Posticipate means to do something later, when the time has come.
What part of speech is posticipate?
Posticipate is a verb.
What is the past tense of posticipate?
The past tense of posticipate is posticipated.

Words near posticipate in the dictionary

  1. postic
  2. postical
  3. postically
  4. postiche
  5. postiches
  6. posticipate
  7. posticous
  8. posticously
  9. postictal
  10. postictally
  11. posticteric

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