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radicates

radicates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of radicate.

Meaning of radicate

Verb

radicate (third-person singular simple present radicates, present participle radicating, simple past and past participle radicated)

  1. (rare, transitive) To cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly.
    Synonyms:
    root, settle, ingrain
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To take root; to become established.
    • And for Ever - greens , especially such as are tender , prune them not after Planting , till they do radicate1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal...
  3. (rare, transitive) To extract the root of a number.
    • Numbers, arithmetically, can be added, subtracted, multiplied and divided, exponentiated and radicated, […]1972, Patrick Meredith, Dyslexia and the individual, page 36

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Questions about radicates

What is radicates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Radicates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of radicate.

Words near radicates in the dictionary

  1. radicands
  2. radicant
  3. radicarian
  4. radicate
  5. radicated
  6. radicates
  7. radicating
  8. radication
  9. radications
  10. radicative
  11. radicchio

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