incubate
verb (used with object)
to sit upon (eggs) for the purpose of hatching.
incubated
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past participleof incubate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof incubate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
incubateverb (used with object)to sit upon (eggs) for the purpose of hatching.
Example Sentences
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Researchers in Taiwan combined heat transfer simulations with physical experiments to better understand how these dinosaurs incubated their eggs.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 19, 2026
For decades, Greenland quietly incubated one of the last of the anticolonial movements chipping away at an old European empire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Flamingo eggs hatch after a period of about 28 days, where they are incubated on mud pile nests by both parents.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2024
It was fitting that the dogfight took place at Edwards Air Force Base, a vast desert facility where Chuck Yeager broke the speed of sound and the military has incubated its most secret aerospace advances.
From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2024
We are safe, well ventilated, and incubated, provided we can avoid technologies that might fiddle with that ozone, or shift the levels of carbon dioxide.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
