estuate

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UK/ˈɛs.tjʊˌeɪ̯t/US/ˈɛs.t͡ʃuˌeɪ̯t/

verb

To swell up or rage; to be agitated.

OriginLatin aestuātus →
Scrabble 7
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Meanings

verbestuate (third-person singular simple present estuates, present participle estuating, simple past and past participle estuated)

present singular third person estuates · participle present estuating · participle past estuated · past estuated · alternative obsolete aestuate · alternative obsolete æstuate

  1. intransitiveobsoleteTo swell up or rage; to be agitated.

    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

    2 more examples

    it is onely profitable to a ſtomacke that eſtuateth with heat

    1620, Tobias Venner, Via Recta ad Vitam Longam

    And how darest thou pray, whilst wrath estuates and rankles in thy breast?

    a. 1690, Ezekiel Hopkins, Expositions of the Ten Commandments

Origin

  1. Latinaestuātus
  2. Englishestuate

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”).

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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