terebrate
English
Etymology
Latin terebratus, past participle of terebrare.
Adjective
terebrate (not comparable)
- Provided with a borer.
Verb
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- To bore or perforate.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Thomas Browne to this entry?)
Usage notes
- The present participle terebrating is applied mainly to mollusks that make holes in rocks, wood, etc. and to certain kinds of pain, especially those of locomotor ataxia.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “terebrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Italian
Verb
terebrate
- second-person plural present indicative of terebrare
- second-person plural imperative of terebrare
- feminine plural of terebrato
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) terebrāte