ejaculate
Americanverb (used with object)
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ejaculates,
present (3rd person singular)
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ejaculated,
past participle, past
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ejaculating
present participle
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to utter suddenly and briefly; exclaim.
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to eject (semen).
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to eject suddenly and swiftly; discharge.
verb (used without object)
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ejaculates,
present (3rd person singular)
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ejaculated,
past participle, past
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ejaculating
present participle
noun
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ejaculates
plural
verb
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to eject or discharge (semen) in orgasm
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(tr) to utter abruptly; blurt out
noun
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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ejaculatesimple
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ejaculatessimple
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have ejaculatedperfect
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has ejaculatedperfect
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am ejaculatingprogressive
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are ejaculatingprogressive
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is ejaculatingprogressive
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have been ejaculatingperfect progressive
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has been ejaculatingperfect progressive
Past
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ejaculatedsimple
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had ejaculatedperfect
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was ejaculatingprogressive
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were ejaculatingprogressive
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had been ejaculatingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of ejaculate
First recorded in 1570–80; from Latin ējaculātus “thrown out,” past participle of ējaculārī “to shoot out, throw out,” from ē- e- 1 + jacul(um) “javelin” (from jac(ere) “to throw” + -ulum -ule ) + -ārī, infinitive suffix
Example Sentences
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For one thing, the genes of breeding bulls are well understood, and for another, breeding organisations obtain ejaculate from the animals twice a week as part of normal operations.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2024
The clinic could not find any gametes, or sperm, in her ejaculate, even though she had stopped taking her hormones 10 months earlier.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
A vasectomy involves cutting and sealing the tube that carries sperm, preventing it from entering ejaculate fluid.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
According to Delgado, she’s never heard of a case where a neutered cat produced ejaculate from this type of behavior.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2019
But the inquirer must needs ejaculate, "Hooch ay, she would be ferry coot whateffer if you had peen in Harry Fardon's shoes."
From The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon
We found that men who performed fewer mate guarding behaviors produced higher quality ejaculates, having a greater concentration of sperm, a higher percentage of motile sperm and sperm that swam faster and less erratically.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2022
Scarcely has he recovered consciousness when he stares about him and ejaculates again & again, 'I've no more pain!
From Time Magazine Archive
"Ah!" ejaculates Mr. Wedron; "ah-h-h!" then he closes his lips, and Constance resumes.
From The Diamond Coterie by Lawrence L. Lynch
I suspect that the original presents here an error, which I have endeavoured to correct.—The names which the lady ejaculates are to be understood as those of female slaves, her attendants.
From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous
Some one has remarked, I think, that though Paul ejaculates, "God forbid," his fears were well founded and have been widely realised.
From My Path to Atheism by Annie Wood Besant
Researchers found that men with higher levels of both short- and long-term stress and anxiety ejaculated less semen and had lower sperm concentration and counts.
From Reuters ● Feb. 20, 2013
In men who have not ejaculated for a week or longer, the sperm stored in the testes begin to degrade and die out, leading to lower fertility.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2011
"I don't know the front of a ship from the back," he ejaculated to his civilian assistant and Man Friday, Lewis Compton, when he first took the job.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Belgrade stolid worshipers listened in grim silence, but in other churches congregations throughout the countryside piously ejaculated "May He Be Damned!" as each name was pronounced.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then flinging herself upon the uncomfortable sofa she said, Mademoiselle, I am going to move away from my house on Esplanade Street” “Ah!” ejaculated the musician, neither surprised nor especially interested.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
Miss Louisa took a small ivory crucifix from her bosom, kissed it, and crossed herself, while ejaculating audible aspirations for patience.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
"Pas possible, mademoiselle," he kept on ejaculating, "pas possible, comment faire cuisine?"
From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb
He does not go far before a young lady hurries after him, and hunts up and down as if looking for something, ejaculating all the time, “How my children are crying in England!”
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
Mrs. Hunt put her arms round the two children who were pressing against her in their eagerness: whereupon Michael raised a wrathful howl and flung himself bodily upon them, ejaculating: "Wants to be hugged, too!"
From Captain Jim by Mary Grant Bruce
He was reduced to eating his dinner, which was a very good one, and, in large intervals of silence, to gazing around upon the company and inwardly ejaculating, "Never again!"
From The Eldest Son by Archibald Marshall
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