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trepidates

trepidates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of trepidate.

Meaning of trepidate

Verb

trepidate (third-person singular simple present trepidates, present participle trepidating, simple past and past participle trepidated)

  1. (transitive, uncommon) 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
  2. (intransitive, uncommon) 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 trepidates

What is trepidates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Trepidates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of trepidate.

Words near trepidates in the dictionary

  1. trepidacious
  2. trepidancy
  3. trepidant
  4. trepidate
  5. trepidated
  6. trepidates
  7. trepidating
  8. trepidation
  9. trepidations
  10. trepidatious
  11. trepidatiously

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