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maculate

/adjective mak-yuh-lit; verb mak-yuh-leyt/US // adjective ˈmæk yə lɪt; verb ˈmæk yəˌleɪt //UK // archaic, or literary //

斑点,斑点状,斑纹,斑块状

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : spotted; stained.
    • : Archaic. defiled; impure.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    mac·u·lat·ed, mac·u·lat·ing.Archaic.

    • : to mark with a spot or spots; stain.
    • : to sully or pollute.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as insoil
Forms: maculated, maculates, maculating
as indefile
Forms: maculated, maculates, maculating

Examples

  • Josephina owns one unchanging dress, septic, maculate and repellent.

  • We are maculate, and it is given to no man to probe the mystery of existence.

  • But the tears and blood which follow violence and wrong maculate the pages of history on which their glory is recorded.

  • Maculate -ed: spotted or marked with figures of any shape, of a color different from the ground.

  • He has never decided whether His mother came into the world maculate or immaculate.