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saginates

saginates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of saginate.

Meaning of saginate

Verb

saginate (third-person singular simple present saginates, present participle saginating, simple past and past participle saginated)

  1. (archaic) To fatten.
    • Many a white heifer by the ruthless steel
      Lay bleeding, many a sheep and blatant goat,
      With many a saginated boar bright-tusk'd
      Amid fierce flames Vulcanian stretch'd to roast1791, William Cowper, Iliad

Questions about saginates

What is saginates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Saginates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of saginate.

Words near saginates in the dictionary

  1. sagiest
  2. sagina
  3. saginas
  4. saginate
  5. saginated
  6. saginates
  7. saginating
  8. sagination
  9. saginations
  10. Saginaw
  11. Saginaw County

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