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pumicated

pumicated is the simple past and past participle of pumicate.

Meaning of pumicate

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

Questions about pumicated

What is pumicated the simple past and past participle of?
Pumicated is the simple past and past participle of pumicate.

Words near pumicated in the dictionary

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

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