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recalcitrates

recalcitrates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of recalcitrate.

Meaning of recalcitrate

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

Questions about recalcitrates

What is recalcitrates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Recalcitrates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of recalcitrate.

Words near recalcitrates in the dictionary

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

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