terebrate

From Latin terebratus, past participle of terebrare.

• IPA^(key): (adjective) /ˈtɛɹɪbɹət/
• IPA^(key): (verb) /ˈtɛɹɪbɹeɪt/

terebrate (not comparable)

1. Provided with a borer.

terebrate (third-person singular simple present terebrates, present participle terebrating, simple past and past participle terebrated)

1. To bore or perforate.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     the threefold effect of Jupiter's trisulk , to burn , discuss , and terebrate

• The verb terebrate is applied mainly to mollusks that make holes in rocks, wood, etc. and to certain kinds of pain, especially those of locomotor ataxia.

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

terebrate

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

terebrate f pl

1. feminine plural of terebrato

terebrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of terebrō