exiguate

English edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɪɡju.eɪt/, /ɛɡˈzɪɡju.eɪt/

Verb edit

exiguate (third-person singular simple present exiguates, present participle exiguating, simple past and past participle exiguated)

(obsolete) to shrink and reduce in quality or value; to become exiguous
- 1860, Catherine Gore, The Lord and the Lout - Page 50‎^[1]:
  "Though defrauded of an earldom, he need not exiguate into a dwarf."
- 2015, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, translated by Humphrey T. Davies, Leg Over Leg: Volumes Three and Four - Page 408‎^[2]:
  "My allotted portion of good things, my body, and my house—"
  "Each is exiguate, exiguate, exiguate."