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estuate

verb
/ˈɛs.tjʊˌeɪ̯t/UK/ˈɛs.t͡ʃuˌeɪ̯t/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aestuātus, past participial of aestuō (“to be in violent motion, to boil up, burn”), from aestus (“boiling or undulating motion, fire, glow, heat”).

  1. borrowed from aestuātus

Definitions

  1. To swell up or rage

    To swell up or rage; to be agitated.

    • it is onely profitable to a ſtomacke that eſtuateth with heat
    • 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
    • And how darest thou pray, whilst wrath estuates and rankles in thy breast?

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA