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单词 verminate
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verminatev.

Brit. /ˈvəːmᵻneɪt/, U.S. /ˈvərməˌneɪt/
Etymology: < Latin vermināt- participial stem of vermināre to have worms or griping pains, < vermis worm. Compare Latin vermina griping pains caused by worms, stomach-ache.
rare.
1. intransitive. To breed or produce parasitic vermin.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > by nature > [verb (intransitive)] > breed or produce parasitic vermin
verminate1693
1693 T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. 263 He having taken extraordinary care and pains to observe, that always on the Flesh, before it did Verminate, there sate Flies of the self same kind with those that were afterwards produc'd thence.
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. To Verminate, to breed Worms.
1912 D. Crawford Thinking Black xxii. 441 Here, then, we see them [sc. people] crowding and verminating in their filth.
2. Pathology. (See quot. 1721) Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. To Verminate (among Physicians), to have a griping or wringing in the Belly; to..void Worms.

Derivatives

ˈverminating n. (used attributive) and adj.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > [adjective]
theowlikec1175
wickc1175
wretcha1200
lechera1300
vilea1300
feeblea1325
brothely1330
caitiffa1400
roinousa1425
basec1450
harlotry1486
filthy1533
brockish1546
vild1568
tinkerly?1576
scabbed?1577
miscreant1593
unnoble1593
slavish1597
rascally1600
roguish1601
sordidous1602
facinoriousa1616
scullion1658
dirty1670
shabbed1674
shabby1679
scoundrel1681
scabby1712
verminating1720
small1824
low-down1865
verminiferous1895
ragtime1917
ribby1936
raunchy1937
scungy1966
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [adjective] > producing vermin
verminous1666
verminating1720
vermiparous1860
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > infestation by noxious creatures > [adjective] > producing vermin
verminating1720
verminiferous1895
1720 Bibliotheca Biblica I. 152 The Seed of the Serpent, and its Verminating Principle.
1856 G. H. Boker Leonor de Guzman ii. i, in Plays & Poems I. 260 Out, thou flea-bitten, verminating rogue!
1912 D. Crawford Thinking Black vi. 97 Their average beehive hut is a verminating hole, a den of disease.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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