repullulate
/ɹɪˈpʌljʊleɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To reappear.
Example Sentences
- "Though tares repullulate, there is wheat still left in the field."
- "The Arbutus, doubtful, and so are Bays; but some will escape, and most of them repullulate and spring afresh , if cut down near the Earth, at the latter End of the Month."
- "nay, though quite cut down, they repullulate and produce young Suckers."
- "But vanisht man, Like to a Lilly-lost, nere can, Nere can repullulate, or bring His dayes to see a second Spring."
- "When the Dragon, or Beast actuated by the Dragon, had received a mortal Wound by Constantine, and the Hydra's Head was cut off at ancient Rome, it did, in Process of Time, repullulate in Constantinople, so that the Beast , which had a Wound in his primary, principal, and most capital Head, (if I may be allowed so to speak) did yet survive and put forth another very eminent Head and Horns, now of a long Time visible, and terrible enough to the Beholders, in the Turkish Empire."
- "yet they eat one another, every day; but anon, God restores and renews the man that was eaten, as a cropt plant in a little time repullulates."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: repullulō