Meanings
nounextreat (countable and uncountable, plural extreats)
plural extreats
- countableobsoleteuncountableEstreat.
- countableobsoleteuncountableExtraction.
Whether this heavenly thing whereof I treat, / To weeten Mercie, be of Justice part, / Or drawne forth from her by divine extreate […]
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
verbextreat (third-person singular simple present extreats, present participle extreating, simple past and past participle extreated)
present singular third person extreats · participle present extreating · participle past extreated · past extreated
- obsoleteObsolete form of estreat.
Origin
Variant form of estreat.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
APA
extreat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extreat
MLA
“extreat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extreat. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “extreat,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extreat.
Source: extreat on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.