insalivate
English
editVerb
editinsalivate (third-person singular simple present insalivates, present participle insalivating, simple past and past participle insalivated)
- (transitive) To mix with saliva, as when eating.
- 1913, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, volume 6, page 281:
- The results of insalivating milk are very suggestive that saliva has a bactericidal or anti-putrefactive function.
Related terms
editItalian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editinsalivate
- inflection of insalivare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editinsalivate f pl