terebrate
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin terebratus, past participle of terebrare.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editterebrate (not comparable)
- Provided with a borer.
Verb
editterebrate (third-person singular simple present terebrates, present participle terebrating, simple past and past participle terebrated)
- To bore or perforate.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- the threefold effect of Jupiter's trisulk , to burn , discuss , and terebrate
Usage notes
edit- The present participle terebrating is applied mainly to mollusks that make holes in rocks, wood, etc. and to certain kinds of pain, especially those of locomotor ataxia.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “terebrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Italian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editterebrate
- inflection of terebrare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editterebrate f pl
Latin
editVerb
editterebrāte
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