单词 | verminate |
释义 | verminate —vermination, n. /verr"meuh nayt'/, v.i. , verminated, verminating. 1. to become infested with vermin, esp. parasitic vermin. 2. Archaic. to breed or infest with vermin. [1685-95; < L verminatus, ptp. of verminare to be infested with maggots, to have racking pains, equiv. to vermin(a) racking pain + -atus -ATE1; dual sense of verminare by assoc. with vermis worm, maggot, vermin- being taken, perh. erroneously, as an extended s. of this word] |
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