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soporate

soporate verb: to lay or put to sleep; to stupefy.

Verb

soporate (third-person singular simple present soporates, present participle soporating, simple past and past participle soporated)

  1. (obsolete) To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy.
    • the soul seeming not to be thoroughly awake here , but , as it were , soporated with the dull steams and opiatic vapours of this gross body1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […]...

Forms of soporate

third-person singular presentsoporates
present participlesoporating
past participlesoporated
pastsoporated

Origin of soporate

From Latin soporatus, past participle of soporare (“to put to sleep”), from sopor (“a heavy sleep”).

Questions about soporate

What does soporate mean?
Soporate means to lay or put to sleep; to stupefy.
What part of speech is soporate?
Soporate is a verb.
What is the past tense of soporate?
The past tense of soporate is soporated.

Words near soporate in the dictionary

  1. Sopje
  2. Sopko
  3. Sopley
  4. SOPO
  5. sopor
  6. soporate
  7. soporated
  8. soporates
  9. soporiferous
  10. soporiferously
  11. soporiferousness

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