| 释义 |
verminate
—vermination, n.
/verr"meuh nayt'/, v.i. , verminated, verminating.
1. to become infested with vermin, esp. parasitic vermin.
2. Archaic. to breed or infest with vermin.
[1685-95; < L verminatus, ptp. of verminare to be infested with maggots, to have racking pains, equiv. to vermin(a) racking pain + -atus -ATE1; dual sense of verminare by assoc. with vermis worm, maggot, vermin- being taken, perh. erroneously, as an extended s. of this word] |