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saginating

saginating is the present participle and gerund 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 saginating

What is saginating the present participle and gerund of?
Saginating is the present participle and gerund of saginate.

Words near saginating in the dictionary

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

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