menstruate en · VERB · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ˌmɛnˈstɹeɪt/ (General-American)
- /ˌmɛnstɹuˈeɪt/ (General-American)
- /ˈmɛnstɹʊeɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈmɛnstɹəˌweɪt/ (General-American)
Etymology
From menstruum + -ate (verb-forming suffix); sense 2 (“to undergo menstruation”) is possibly a back-formation from menstruation.
Meanings
- (obsolete, rare, transitive) To stain with or as if with menses.
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(intransitive) To undergo menstruation, to have a period.
Fortunately, there’s early signs of a “wokelash” from institutions that won’t cower to this nonsense. When staff at publisher Hachette threatened to down tools because they regarded JK Rowling as a toxic transphobe for a tweet mocking “people” who menstruate instead of “women”, management pushed back saying they couldn’t refuse to work on a book because they disagree with the author’s views.
2021 November 20, Angela Mollard, “Gen Z cancelling musical Grease is disappointing”, in The Daily Telegraph, Surrey Hills, N.S.W:A woman may have every quality or attribute of marriageableness who menstruates irregularly, or rarely, or even who has never menstruated at all.
1884, The Medical Age, volume 2, page 358:Among the ancient Iranians, the puerpera, like the menstruating woman, was regarded as "unclean".
1885, Hermann Heinrich Ploss, Max Bartels, Paul Bartels, translated by Eric John Dingwall, Woman: an historical, gynæcological and anthropological compendium, page 150:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| menstrate | alternative | lexicographic | |
| menstruated | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| menstruated | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| menstruating | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| menstruates | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Deriveds
menstruater · nonmenstruating · femstruate · unmenstruating
Relateds
menstruator · menstruous · menstruation · menstrual
Synonyms
be on one's period · be on the rag
Translations (33)
ga míostraigh (to undergo menstruation) · fr avoir ses règles (to undergo menstruation) · gl menstruar (to undergo menstruation) · it mestruare (to undergo menstruation) · vi có kinh nguyệt (to undergo menstruation) · es menstruar (to undergo menstruation) · pl miesiączkować (to undergo menstruation) · ca menstruar (to undergo menstruation) · km មានរដូវ (to undergo menstruation) · ru быть в пери́оде менструа́ции (to undergo menstruation) · fi olla kuukautiset (to undergo menstruation) · it menstruare (to undergo menstruation) · ru менструи́ровать (to undergo menstruation) · it avere il ciclo (to undergo menstruation) · egy U32-D26 (to undergo menstruation) · ru име́ть ме́сячные (to undergo menstruation) · my သွေးပေါ် (to undergo menstruation) · de den Monatsfluss haben (to undergo menstruation) · de menstruieren (to undergo menstruation) · ja 生理がある (to undergo menstruation) · be менструі́раваць (to undergo menstruation) · nb menstruere (to undergo menstruation) · cmn 行經 /行经 (to undergo menstruation) · cmn 來月經 /来月经 (to undergo menstruation) · sv menstruera (to undergo menstruation) · ar حَاضَ (to undergo menstruation) · nn menstruere (to undergo menstruation) · da menstruere (to undergo menstruation) · cs menstruovat (to undergo menstruation) · pt menstruar (to undergo menstruation) · sv ha menstruation (to undergo menstruation) · nn menstruera (to undergo menstruation) · ru име́ть менструа́цию (to undergo menstruation)