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coventrate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
coven-trate
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To devastate by heavy bombing.

Transitive verb

Etymology

From Coventry + -ate (verb-forming suffix), following German coventrieren. Coventry, England, was devastated by German firebombing in November 1940, during World War II.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: coventrieren

Usage

Inflected Forms

coventrates (present, singular) coventrating (participle, present) coventrated (participle, past) coventrated (past)

Derived Forms

coventrating coventration

Synonyms

coventrize

Questions

What does coventrate mean?
To devastate by heavy bombing.
Where does coventrate come from?
It is traced to German.

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