English Explanatory Dictionary

efferate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To excite into a passionate, angry, bestial state.

Word forms

efferate efferates efferating efferated

Etymology

From Latin efferātus, perfect passive participle of efferō (“to make wild or savage, brutalize, barbarize; to make fierce, infuriate, madden”). By surface analysis, ef- + Latin fer- + -ate.

Related words

efferous
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