Apricate

Quick meaning: Apricate is a verb meaning (intransitive, rare) To bask in the sun.

Meaning

(intransitive, rare) To bask in the sun.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, also figuratively, rare) To disinfect and freshen by exposing to the sun; to sun.

Example Sentences

Cats like to apricate.

Eating apricots and apricating himself the while on a garden wall, his hands in his pockets, he [the poet James Thomson] forms a pretty pendant to the Horatian picture.

From the top of this gatehouse was a most pleasant and delightful prospect as is to be seen. His Lordship [Sir Thomas More] was wont to recreate himself in this place to apricate and contemplate, and his little dog with him.

It would never have occurred to him that in placing the apricot in my palm he was giving me his ass to hold or that, in biting the fruit, I was also biting into that part of his body that must have been fairer than the rest because it never apricated— […]

Word Forms

• apricates
• apricating
• apricated

Synonyms for apricate

Depending on context, synonyms include sun, bask, sunbathe.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bathe, sunbake, sunbathe, bask, starbathe, sunburn.

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