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INTROMIT (intromitted, intromitting)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does intromit mean?
• INTROMIT (verb)
The verb INTROMIT has 1 sense:
1. allow to enter; grant entry to
Familiarity information: INTROMIT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: intromitted
Past participle: intromitted
-ing form: intromitting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Allow to enter; grant entry to
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
admit; allow in; intromit; let in
Context example:
This pipe admits air
Hypernyms (to "intromit" is one way to...):
allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)
Verb group:
admit (serve as a means of entrance)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "intromit"):
repatriate (admit back into the country)
readmit (admit anew)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Derivation:
intromission (the act of putting one thing into another)
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