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
“Since all white blood cells come from the bone marrow donor after a bone-marrow transplant, it will not be a surprise that ejaculate containing white blood cells will also be of the donor.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2019
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
"Oh, laws!" he had been heard to ejaculate on receipt of a former letter.
From Kept in the Dark by Anthony Trollope
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
“Good!” he ejaculates in a whisper, “it must be his.”
From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by F.C. Tilney
Joe Harkness!” gaspingly ejaculates the man, as in turn the three faces appear before him.
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid
Duelling was prevalent—one of the sincerities of human life which bursts through the thickest quilted formulas, as Carlyle ejaculates.
From Great Ralegh by Hugh de Selincourt
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
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
"Well, I'm against that rule," ejaculated Mr. Watson, compromising by standing facing into a corner, so that Mr. Fess and the Vice President might each see his profile.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Ah!” ejaculated the musician, neither surprised nor especially interested.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
"Pas possible, mademoiselle," he kept on ejaculating, "pas possible, comment faire cuisine?"
From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb
What is this new creed of yours? we can fancy the hon. and gallant member for Loamshire ejaculating.
From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various
They plucked him harder than ever, yelling all the while; so that, although he continued to scold, I could only hear him at intervals ejaculating: “Mother av Moses!”
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
Laboriously the good woman stepped from door-stone to threshold, and voluminously filling the wooden rocker which Mrs. Weston offered her, she fanned herself with her handkerchief, ejaculating between gasps 151 for breath, “Lor’ me!
From Randy's Summer A Story for Girls by Amy Brooks
She could not help ejaculating a little sarcastically: "How circumspect!"
From The Squirrel Inn by Frank Richard Stockton
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