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JACTITATE

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

• JACTITATE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Move or stir about violently

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

jactitate; thrash about; thresh; thresh about; thrash; convulse; toss; slash

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
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