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eventrate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
even-trate
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To open the bowels of, disembowel.

Obsolete; Transitive verb

verb

To protrude through a defect or weakness in the abdominal wall, to come out of one's belly.

Intransitive verb; Obsolete

Etymology

Back-formation from eventration on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix) or directly derived from French éventrer. Compare eventerate.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

eventrates (present, singular) eventrating (participle, present) eventrated (participle, past) eventrated (past)

Questions

What does eventrate mean?
To open the bowels of, disembowel.
Where does eventrate come from?
It is traced to French.

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