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recalcitrate

/ɹɪˈkælsɪtɹeɪt/

recalcitrate verb: to kick back; to kick against anything.

Verb

recalcitrate (third-person singular simple present recalcitrates, present participle recalcitrating, simple past and past participle recalcitrated)

  1. (intransitive) To kick back; to kick against anything.
    • [The National Assembly] has to hear of innumerable fresh revolts, Brigand expeditions; of Chateaus in the West, especially of Charter-chests, Chartiers, set on fire; for there too the overloaded Ass frightfully recalcitrates.1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number)
  2. (broadly, transitive) To express repugnance or opposition.
    • The more one was indignant at being the object of such a man's contempt, the more heartily did one disdain his disdain, and recalcitrate his kicks.1840, Thomas De Quincey, Society of the Lakes

recalcitrate meaning in Urdu and Bengali

recalcitrate in Urdu

ٹھکرانا

recalcitrate in Bengali

পেছনের দিকে লাথি মারা

Forms of recalcitrate

third-person singular presentrecalcitrates
present participlerecalcitrating
past participlerecalcitrated
pastrecalcitrated

Questions about recalcitrate

What does recalcitrate mean?
Recalcitrate means to kick back; to kick against anything.
What is recalcitrate in Urdu?
Recalcitrate in Urdu is ٹھکرانا. See Recalcitrate meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is recalcitrate?
Recalcitrate is a verb.
How do you pronounce recalcitrate?
Recalcitrate is pronounced /ɹɪˈkælsɪtɹeɪt/.
What is the past tense of recalcitrate?
The past tense of recalcitrate is recalcitrated.

Words near recalcitrate in the dictionary

  1. recalcitrancies
  2. recalcitrancy
  3. recalcitrant
  4. recalcitrantly
  5. recalcitrants
  6. recalcitrate
  7. recalcitrated
  8. recalcitrates
  9. recalcitrating
  10. recalcitration
  11. recalcitrations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recalcitrate (page history and authors); recalcitrate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); recalcitrate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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