ovulate
verb (used without object)
to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
ovulated
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past participleof ovulate.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 ovulate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
ovulateverb (used without object)to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
Example Sentences
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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
Again, the drug provided a reproductive jolt, nearly doubling the number of eggs the animals ovulated.
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
Stieve found that women living with a looming death sentence ovulated less predictably and sometimes experienced what he called “shock bleedings.”
From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2017
Corpora albicantia remain on the ovary until April of the year following ovulation but disappear in May and are never present after the new set of eggs is ovulated.
From Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by John M. Legler
