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spiflicates

spiflicates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of spiflicate.

Meaning of spiflicate

Verb

spiflicate (third-person singular simple present spiflicates, present participle spiflicating, simple past and past participle spiflicated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To confound, silence or dumbfound.
  2. (dated, transitive) To beat severely.
  3. (obsolete, slang, transitive) To stifle, suffocate, kill.
    • So out with your whinger at once, and scrag Jane while I spiflicate Johnny1837, Richard Barham, The Ingoldsby Legends
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To ruin, destroy.
    • It completely busts up and spifflicates the medical evidence1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase

Questions about spiflicates

What is spiflicates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Spiflicates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of spiflicate.

Words near spiflicates in the dictionary

  1. spiffs
  2. spiffs up
  3. spiffy
  4. spiflicate
  5. spiflicated
  6. spiflicates
  7. spiflicating
  8. spiflication
  9. SPIFS
  10. spigarello
  11. Spigelian

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