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pumicate

/ˈpjuːmɪkeɪt/

pumicate verb: to make smooth with pumice.

Verb

pumicate (third-person singular simple present pumicates, present participle pumicating, simple past and past participle pumicated)

  1. (transitive) To make smooth with pumice.
    • It was a long, spacious place, where the polishers, in smocks of black serge, sat in double rows pumicating and grinding their pieces at little work-boards.1925, Émile Zola, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, Fruitfulness, page 8

Forms of pumicate

third-person singular presentpumicates
present participlepumicating
past participlepumicated
pastpumicated

Origin of pumicate

From Latin pumicatus, past participle of pumicare (“to pumicate”), from pumex. See pumice.

Words formed from pumicate

Questions about pumicate

What does pumicate mean?
Pumicate means to make smooth with pumice.
What part of speech is pumicate?
Pumicate is a verb.
How do you pronounce pumicate?
Pumicate is pronounced /ˈpjuːmɪkeɪt/.
What is the past tense of pumicate?
The past tense of pumicate is pumicated.

Words near pumicate in the dictionary

  1. pumelloes
  2. pumellos
  3. pumelo
  4. pumeloes
  5. pumelos
  6. pumicate
  7. pumicated
  8. pumicates
  9. pumicating
  10. pumice
  11. pumice raft

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