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TRIFURCATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does trifurcate mean?
• TRIFURCATE (verb)
The verb TRIFURCATE has 1 sense:
1. divide into three
Familiarity information: TRIFURCATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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Present simple: I / you / we / they trifurcate ... he / she / it trifurcates
Past simple: trifurcated
Past participle: trifurcated
-ing form: trifurcating
... he / she / it trifurcates Past simple: trifurcated
Past participle: trifurcated
-ing form: trifurcating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Divide into three
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
The road trifurcates at the bridge
Hypernyms (to "trifurcate" is one way to...):
branch; fork; furcate; ramify; separate (divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
trifurcation (the act of splitting into three branches)
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