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transverbating

transverbating is the present participle and gerund of transverbate.

Meaning of transverbate

Verb

transverbate (third-person singular simple present transverbates, present participle transverbating, simple past and past participle transverbated)

  1. To translate word by word, making only syntactic adjustments, but not adapting to the idiom of the target language.
    • If we could take the Hebrew and the Greek and transverbate them it would be comparatively easy; but we have to remember always that we are translating for a people who do not regard the Bible in any sense as a book of authority.1897, Bible Society Record, page 2
    Synonyms:
    transverbalize

Questions about transverbating

What is transverbating the present participle and gerund of?
Transverbating is the present participle and gerund of transverbate.

Words near transverbating in the dictionary

  1. transverbalizes
  2. transverbalizing
  3. transverbate
  4. transverbated
  5. transverbates
  6. transverbating
  7. transverberate
  8. transverberated
  9. transverberates
  10. transverberating
  11. transverberation

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