menstruate

present singular third person menstruates · participle present menstruating · participle past menstruated · past menstruated · alternative menstrate

1. obsoleteraretransitiveTo stain with or as if with menses.
2. intransitiveTo undergo menstruation, to have a period.

   Among the ancient Iranians, the puerpera, like the menstruating woman, was regarded as "unclean".

   1885, Hermann Heinrich Ploss, Max Bartels, Paul Bartels, translated by Eric John Dingwall, Woman: an historical, gynæcological and anthropological compendium, page 150

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   A woman may have every quality or attribute of marriageableness who menstruates irregularly, or rarely, or even who has never menstruated at all.

   1884, The Medical Age, volume 2, page 358

   Fortunately, there’s early signs of a “wokelash” from institutions that won’t cower to this nonsense. When staff at publisher Hachette threatened to down tools because they regarded JK Rowling as a toxic transphobe for a tweet mocking “people” who menstruate instead of “women”, management pushed back saying they couldn’t refuse to work on a book because they disagree with the author’s views.

   2021 November 20, Angela Mollard, “Gen Z cancelling musical Grease is disappointing”, in The Daily Telegraph, Surrey Hills, N.S.W

   Synonyms: be on one's period, be on the rag

1. not comparableobsoleteMenstrual.