Dictionary

trepidate en · VERB

Etymology

Either back-formed from, or otherwise related to, trepidation.

Meanings

1. (transitive, uncommon) To cause to experience trepidation.
   • […] “A little trepidated, if not consternated, they lifted him from his close confinement and put him to bed.” 1878, a Memphis newspaper, quoted in 2015, John H. Ellis, Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South, University Press of Kentucky, page 51
   • If so, he was now deeply trepidated. He had almost hoped she would not live up to expectations. She might have lost her looks, acquired irritating habits, even proved to be unpleasant. But here she was, still beautiful and charming. 2016, Debby Holt, The Soulmate, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
2. (intransitive, uncommon) To experience trepidation.
   • It sounded rather appalling to be engaged in a glee for three voices, with two performers such as these; and I trepidated a little as I went up stairs, having previously understood that the great man was already come. 1876, Thomas De Quincey, The Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater, page 40:
   • I trepidated that evening upon entering their apartment; his wife, we were told, was from that other world, and no one briefed us as to how she would show. 2007, Jack Womack, Elvissey: A Novel, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., →ISBN:

Forms

Deriveds

trepidatious