estuate
English
Etymology
From Latin aestuare (“to be in violent motion, to boil up, burn”), from aestus (“boiling or undulating motion, fire, glow, heat”), akin to (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek [Term?] (“to burn”). See ether.
Verb
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- (transitive) To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “estuate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)