pupate
verb (used without object)
to become a pupa.
has pupated
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present perfectof pupate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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It is into this that the philosophical impulse of our time has pupated itself; and the peculiar philosophers of our universities seem to have conspired to fortify and confirm the young academicians in it.
From On the Future of our Educational Institutions by J. M. (John McFarland) Kennedy
