atterrate

From Italian atterrare. Compare Late Latin atterrare (“to cast to earth”).

• IPA^(key): /əˈtɛɹeɪt/

atterrate (third-person singular simple present atterrates, present participle atterrating, simple past and past participle atterrated)

1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To fill up with alluvial earth.
   • 1738, John Ray, Travels Through the Low Countries:

     The rain doth […] atterrate or add part of the sea to the firm land

• atterration

• “atterrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

atterrate

1. inflection of atterrare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

atterrate f pl

1. feminine plural of atterrato