suffragate

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/ˈsʌfɹəɡeɪt/

verb

To vote.

OriginLatin suffragatus →
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Meanings

verbsuffragate (third-person singular simple present suffragates, present participle suffragating, simple past and past participle suffragated)

present singular third person suffragates · participle present suffragating · participle past suffragated · past suffragated

  1. obsoleteTo vote.

    suffragating tribes

    1676, John Dryden, Prologue to the University of Oxford

Origin

  1. Latinsuffragatus
  2. Englishsuffragate

From Latin suffragatus.

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Chicago

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