VESICULATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vesiculate mean? 

• VESICULATE (verb)
  The verb VESICULATE has 2 senses:

1. become vesicular or full of air cells

2. cause to become vesicular or full of air cells

  Familiarity information: VESICULATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VESICULATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they vesiculate    ... he / she / it vesiculates   
Past simple: vesiculated   
Past participle: vesiculated   
-ing form: vesiculating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become vesicular or full of air cells

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The organs vesiculated

Hypernyms (to "vesiculate" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

vesiculate (cause to become vesicular or full of air cells)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

vesiculation (the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to become vesicular or full of air cells

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

vesiculate an organ

Hypernyms (to "vesiculate" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Verb group:

vesiculate (become vesicular or full of air cells)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

vesiculation (the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin)