What does estuate mean?
Estuate means (intransitive, obsolete) To swell up or rage; to be agitated..
Estuate
/ˈɛs.tjʊˌeɪ̯t/ · verb
Meaning
(intransitive, obsolete) To swell up or rage; to be agitated..
Example Sentences
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
it is onely profitable to a ſtomacke that eſtuateth with heat
And how darest thou pray, whilst wrath estuates and rankles in thy breast?
Synonyms for estuate
Antonyms for estuate
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Word Forms
- estuates
- estuating
- estuated
- aestuate
- æstuate
Usage Notes
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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
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