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VESICATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vesicate mean?
• VESICATE (verb)
The verb VESICATE has 1 sense:
1. get blistered
Familiarity information: VESICATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they vesicate ... he / she / it vesicates
Past simple: vesicated
Past participle: vesicated
-ing form: vesicating
... he / she / it vesicates Past simple: vesicated
Past participle: vesicated
-ing form: vesicating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Get blistered
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
blister; vesicate
Context example:
Her feet blistered during the long hike
Hypernyms (to "vesicate" is one way to...):
intumesce; swell; swell up; tumefy; tumesce (expand abnormally)
Verb group:
blister (cause blisters to form on)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
vesicant (causing blisters)
vesication (the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin)
vesicatory (causing blisters)
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