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tralineate

/tɹəˈlɪn.i.eɪt/

tralineate verb: to deviate; to stray; to wander.

Verb

tralineate (third-person singular simple present tralineates, present participle tralineating, simple past and past participle tralineated)

  1. (obsolete) To deviate; to stray; to wander.
    • If you tralineate from your father's mind,
      What are you else but of a bastard kind?1700, [John] Dryden, “The Wife of Bath's Tale”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC

Forms of tralineate

third-person singular presenttralineates
present participletralineating
past participletralineated
pasttralineated

Origin of tralineate

From Latin trāns (“across”) + līnea (“a line”). Compare Italian tralineare, tralignare.

Questions about tralineate

What does tralineate mean?
Tralineate means to deviate; to stray; to wander.
What part of speech is tralineate?
Tralineate is a verb.
How do you pronounce tralineate?
Tralineate is pronounced /tɹəˈlɪn.i.eɪt/.
What is the past tense of tralineate?
The past tense of tralineate is tralineated.

Words near tralineate in the dictionary

  1. tralatitions
  2. tralatitious
  3. tralatitiously
  4. Tralee
  5. TRALI
  6. tralineate
  7. tralineated
  8. tralineates
  9. tralineating
  10. tralira
  11. tralkoxydim

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