commacerate

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verb

To harass, torment.

Scrabble 19
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Meanings

verbcommacerate (third-person singular simple present commacerates, present participle commacerating, simple past and past participle commacerated)

present singular third person commacerates · participle present commacerating · participle past commacerated · past commacerated

  1. obsoleteTo harass, torment.

    ... to get perfect intelligence of his life and conversation, one true point whereof, well set downe, wil more excruciate and commacerate him, than knocking him about the eares with his owne stile in a hundred sheetes of paper.

    1596, Thomas Nash, Have with you to Saffron Walden, page 29
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APA

commacerate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/commacerate

MLA

“commacerate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/commacerate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “commacerate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/commacerate.

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