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JACTITATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does jactitate mean?
• JACTITATE (verb)
The verb JACTITATE has 1 sense:
1. move or stir about violently
Familiarity information: JACTITATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it jactitates Past simple: jactitated
Past participle: jactitated
-ing form: jactitating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Move or stir about violently
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
convulse; jactitate; slash; thrash; thrash about; thresh; thresh about; toss
Context example:
The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed
Hypernyms (to "jactitate" is one way to...):
agitate; shake (move or cause to move back and forth)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "jactitate"):
whip (thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
jactitation ((pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness)
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