conglobulate

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verb

To collect together into a compact round mass.

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Meanings

verbconglobulate (third-person singular simple present conglobulates, present participle conglobulating, simple past and past participle conglobulated)

present singular third person conglobulates · participle present conglobulating · participle past conglobulated · past conglobulated

  1. intransitiverareTo collect together into a compact round mass.

    ‘Swallows certainly sleep all the winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the red of a river.’

    1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 393

Origin

From con- + globule + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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