Meanings
verbexiguate (third-person singular simple present exiguates, present participle exiguating, simple past and past participle exiguated)
present singular third person exiguates · participle present exiguating · participle past exiguated · past exiguated
- obsoleteto shrink and reduce in quality or value; to become exiguous
"Though defrauded of an earldom, he need not exiguate into a dwarf."
1860, Catherine Gore, The Lord and the Lout - Page 501 more example
"My allotted portion of good things, my body, and my house—" "Each is exiguate, exiguate, exiguate."
2015, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, translated by Humphrey T. Davies, Leg Over Leg: Volumes Three and Four - Page 408
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