Estuate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈɛs.tjʊˌeɪ̯t/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Estuate is a verb meaning (intransitive, obsolete) To swell up or rage; to be agitated.
Meaning
(intransitive, obsolete) To swell up or rage; to be agitated.
Example Sentences
it is onely profitable to a ſtomacke that eſtuateth with heat
And how darest thou pray, whilst wrath estuates and rankles in thy breast?
1614, Francis Bacon, speech […] [about the] Undertakers these vapours were not gone up to the head, howsoever they might glow and estuate in the body
Word Forms
- estuates
- estuating
- estuated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include exestuate, extuberate, swell, seethe, ebulliate, outswell.
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