bituminate

Meanings

verbbituminate (third-person singular simple present bituminates, present participle bituminating, simple past and past participle bituminated)

present singular third person bituminates · participle present bituminating · participle past bituminated · past bituminated

transitiveTo treat or impregnate with bitumen.
Bituminated walls of Babylon.
1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
Synonyms: bituminize, bituminise, bitumenize

nounbituminate (plural bituminates)

A substance that has been treated with bitumen.
Dr. Ehrmann has used the bituminate of iodoform with success in the treatment of soft chancres, especially phagedenic, as a dressing, after the opening of suppurating buboes, in gummy tumors and in ulcers of the leg.
1888 October, “Bituminate of Iodoform”, in The Epitome, number 34, page 509

verbTo treat or impregnate with bitumen.

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First attested in 1628; borrowed from Late Latin bitūminātus, perfect passive participle of bitūminō (“to bituminate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from bitūmen + verb-forming suffix.

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