gladiate
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Adjective[edit]
gladiate (comparative more gladiate, superlative most gladiate)
Translations[edit]
(botany) sword-shaped
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Etymology 2[edit]
Back-formation from gladiator.
Verb[edit]
gladiate (third-person singular simple present gladiates, present participle gladiating, simple past and past participle gladiated)
- To fight as a gladiator, to digladiate.
- 2013, Lorde, Glory and Gore: Pure Heroine:
- You could try and take us (oh, oh),
but we're the gladiators (oh, oh)
[…]
We gladiate, but I guess we're really fighting ourselves […]