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verminate
[ vur-muh-neyt ]
verb (used without object)
verminated, verminating.
- to become infested with vermin, especially parasitic vermin.
- Archaic. to breed or infest with vermin.
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±¹±ð°ùm¾±Â·²Ô²¹î€ƒt¾±´Ç²Ô noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of verminate1
1685–95; < Latin ±¹±ð°ù³¾¾±²ÔÄå³Ù³Ü²õ, past participle of ±¹±ð°ù³¾¾±²ÔÄå°ù±ð to be infested with maggots, to have racking pains, equivalent to vermin ( a ) racking pain + -Äå³Ù³Ü²õ -ate 1; dual sense of ±¹±ð°ù³¾¾±²ÔÄå°ù±ð by association with vermis worm, maggot, vermin- being taken, perhaps erroneously, as an extended stem of this word
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