menstruate
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Definition of menstruate
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (obsolete, rare, transitive)To stain with or as if with menses.
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verb
- (obsolete, rare, transitive)To stain with or as if with menses.
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(intransitive)To undergo menstruation, to have a period.
“A woman may have every quality or attribute of marriageableness who menstruates irregularly, or rarely, or even who has never menstruated at all.”
“Among the ancient Iranians, the puerpera, like the menstruating woman, was regarded as "unclean".”
“Fortunately, there’s early signs of a “wokelash” from institutions that won’t cower to this nonsense. When staff at publisher Hachette threatened to down tools because they regarded JK Rowling as a toxic transphobe for a tweet mocking “people” who menstruate instead of “women”, management pushed back saying they couldn’t refuse to work on a book because they disagree with the author’s views.”
adj
- (not-comparable, obsolete)Menstrual.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From menstruum + -ate (verb-forming suffix); sense 2 (“to undergo menstruation”) is possibly a back-formation from menstruation.
Words you can make from menstruate
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61 words- ANTRUMS 9 pts
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