ovulate
Americanverb (used without object)
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ovulates,
present (3rd person singular)
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ovulated,
past participle, past
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ovulating
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
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ovulationnoun
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multiovulateadjective
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multiovulatedadjective
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ovulatoryadjective
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preovulatoryadjective
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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ovulatesimple
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ovulatessimple
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have ovulatedperfect
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has ovulatedperfect
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am ovulatingprogressive
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are ovulatingprogressive
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is ovulatingprogressive
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have been ovulatingperfect progressive
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has been ovulatingperfect progressive
Past
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ovulatedsimple
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had ovulatedperfect
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was ovulatingprogressive
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were ovulatingprogressive
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had been ovulatingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of ovulate
Example Sentences
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Among the findings, the atlas reveals that roughly one hour before an egg is released, the follicles undergo an additional layer of selection to determine which ones will ovulate.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 2024
In some cases the ovaries may intermittently “wake up” and ovulate, meaning that some women with primary ovarian insufficiency may still get pregnant.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
These rodents are normally too old to reproduce, but the medication enabled more than half of them to ovulate, the team reports today in Science Advances.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 16, 2022
First, female pandas only ovulate once a year, according to Vice Motherboard.
From Fox News ● Apr. 9, 2020
Approximately 100 to 300 million sperm are produced each day, whereas women typically ovulate only one oocyte per month.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
In theory, the body ovulates most regularly and reliably if someone is not over- or underweight, said Jessica Chan, a reproductive endocrinologist at Cedars-Sinai.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
While it is uncommon, a young girl can get pregnant even before her first period, specifically when she ovulates for the first time — which is usually about 14 days before her first menstrual period.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2022
As a human who ovulates and dates, I find the birth control offerings most intriguing—and in my opinion, birth control is in a different ethical order from some of the other medicines.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2019
In the days or weeks before she ovulates, a woman’s BBT will usually hover between 36.1C and 36.5C.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2016
Darcy ovulates every 28 days, and Raul’s sperm count is normal.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The third cycle, in January 2024, was a wash—she ovulated earlier than her medical team expected.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2025
Apple Watch Series 8 will give users a retrospective estimate of when they ovulated based on data from a new temperature sensor.
From The Verge ● Sep. 7, 2022
Compared with untreated mice of the same age, the rodents ovulated more than twice as many eggs and showed less fibrosis in their ovaries.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 16, 2022
The researchers then had the female rabbits mate with a single male—named Frank—and measured the number of times the females ovulated.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 30, 2019
Enlarged follicles represent future clutches but whether the enlarged follicles will be ovulated in the same season or in a later season is questionable.
From Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by John M. Legler
"If you're not ovulating you can't have a baby. You can't conceive because there's no egg being released," says Dr O'Donnell.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2024
The process doesn’t require a patient to be ovulating, like egg freezing does, which means a patient doesn’t have to undergo hormone treatments.
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2024
They looked for three lines of evidence that suggested females in these species had stopped ovulating: demographic data on survival and fertility at different ages, ovarian examinations, and physiological measurements such as hormone levels.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 25, 2023
In the other, the whales weren’t pregnant during the first massive progesterone surge, but were instead experiencing a prolonged state of estrus or ovulating.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2023
In the mildest cases hemorrhage may not actually take place unless the patients be non-gravid females within the ovulating limits of life.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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