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Conjugate   /kˌɑndʒəgˈeɪt/  /kˈɑndʒəgˌeɪt/   Listen
Conjugate

verb
(past & past part. conjugated; pres. part. conjugating)
1.
Unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds.
2.
Add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc..
3.
Undergo conjugation.



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"Conjugate" Quotes from Famous Books



... of precocious children or child geniuses who make a strong mark in their early years and drop into oblivion by the time they're twenty. Now, consider James Holden, sitting there discussing something with his attorney—I have no doubt in the world that he could conjugate Latin verbs, discuss the effect of the Fall of Rome on Western Civilization, and probably compute the orbit of an artificial satellite. But can James Holden fly a kite or shoot a marble? Has he ever had the fun of sliding into third base, ...
— The Fourth R • George Oliver Smith

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— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith



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