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VESICULATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vesiculate mean?
• VESICULATE (verb)
The verb VESICULATE has 2 senses:
1. become vesicular or full of air cells
2. cause to become vesicular or full of air cells
Familiarity information: VESICULATE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: vesiculated
Past participle: vesiculated
-ing form: vesiculating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become vesicular or full of air cells
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
The organs vesiculated
Hypernyms (to "vesiculate" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Verb group:
vesiculate (cause to become vesicular or full of air cells)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
vesiculation (the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Cause to become vesicular or full of air cells
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
vesiculate an organ
Hypernyms (to "vesiculate" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Verb group:
vesiculate (become vesicular or full of air cells)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Derivation:
vesiculation (the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin)
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