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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

conglobulate en · VERB

Etymology

From con- + globule + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Meanings

  1. (intransitive, rare) To collect together into a compact round mass.
    • ‘Swallows certainly sleep all the winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the red of a river.’ 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 393:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
conglobulates Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
conglobulating Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
conglobulated Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
conglobulated Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

conglobulation