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verminate

[ vur-muh-neyt ]

verb (used without object)

, ver·mi·nat·ed, ver·mi·nat·ing.
  1. to become infested with vermin, especially parasitic vermin.
  2. Archaic. to breed or infest with vermin.


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Other Words From

  • vermi·nation noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of verminate1

1685–95; < Latin verminātus, past participle of vermināre to be infested with maggots, to have racking pains, equivalent to vermin ( a ) racking pain + -ātus -ate 1; dual sense of vermināre by association with vermis worm, maggot, vermin- being taken, perhaps erroneously, as an extended stem of this word

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