estuate

== English == === Alternative forms === aestuate æstuate (obsolete) === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin aestuātus, past participial of aestuō (“to be in violent motion, to boil up, burn”), from aestus (“boiling or undulating motion, fire, glow, heat”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɛs.tjʊˌeɪ̯t/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɛs.t͡ʃuˌeɪ̯t/ === Verb === estuate (third-person singular simple present estuates, present participle estuating, simple past and past participle estuated) (archaic, intransitive) To swell up or rage; to be agitated. 1614, Francis Bacon, speech […] [about the] Undertakers these vapours were not gone up to the head, howsoever they might glow and estuate in the body ==== Related terms ==== aestuous estuary, estuarial estuation exestuate === References === “estuate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.