cadaverate

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verb

To make lifeless; to reduce to dead matter.

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Meanings

verbcadaverate (third-person singular simple present cadaverates, present participle cadaverating, simple past and past participle cadaverated)

present singular third person cadaverates · participle present cadaverating · participle past cadaverated · past cadaverated

  1. obsoleterareTo make lifeless; to reduce to dead matter.

    [Excrementa] […] which […] are by the heat of the body cadaverated, and cast forth.

    1658, George Starkey, Natures explication and Helmont's vindication, section III
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    Could lovers […], with the wretched selfish jealousy of a modern marriage-maker, seek to cadaverate affection and to pervert each other into a utensil, a commodity, a thing appropriate to self and liable with other lumber to be cast aside?

    1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. V, letter 85

Origin

From Latin cadāver + -ate.

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Chicago

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