exiguate

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɪɡju.eɪt/, /ɛɡˈzɪɡju.eɪt/

Verb

exiguate (third-person singular simple present exiguates, present participle exiguating, simple past and past participle exiguated)

1. (obsolete) to shrink and reduce in quality or value; to become exiguous
   • 1860, Catherine Gore, The Lord and the Lout - Page 50

     "Though defrauded of an earldom, he need not exiguate into a dwarf."

   • 2015, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq translated by Humphrey T. Davies, Leg Over Leg: Volumes Three and Four - Page 408

     "My allotted portion of good things, my body, and my house—"

        "Each is exiguate, exiguate, exiguate."