trepidated
trepidated is the simple past and past participle of trepidate.
Meaning of trepidate
Verb
trepidate (third-person singular simple present trepidates, present participle trepidating, simple past and past participle trepidated)
- To cause to experience trepidation.
- […] “A little trepidated, if not consternated, they lifted him from his close confinement and put him to bed.”1878, a Memphis newspaper, quoted in 2015, John H. Ellis, Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South, University Press of Kentucky, page 51
- To experience trepidation.
- It sounded rather appalling to be engaged in a glee for three voices, with two performers such as these; and I trepidated a little as I went up stairs, having previously understood that the great man was already come.1876, Thomas De Quincey, The Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater, page 40
Questions about trepidated
- What is trepidated the simple past and past participle of?
- Trepidated is the simple past and past participle of trepidate.
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