"maculate" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more maculate [comparative], most maculate [superlative]
Etymology: Latin maculātus, past participle of maculāre (“to spot”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|maculātus}} Latin maculātus, {{m|la|maculāre||to spot}} maculāre (“to spot”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} maculate (comparative more maculate, superlative most maculate)
  1. Marked with spots or maculae; blotched. Translations (Marked with spots or maculae; blotched): покрит с петна (pokrit s petna) (Bulgarian), пятни́стый (pjatnístyj) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-maculate-en-adj-UbNU1SUR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 10 21 Disambiguation of 'Marked with spots or maculae; blotched': 99 1
  2. Defiled; impure. Translations (Defiled; impure): impur (French), гря́зный (grjáznyj) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-maculate-en-adj-sScCyi1S Disambiguation of 'Defiled; impure': 1 99

Verb

Forms: maculates [present, singular, third-person], maculating [participle, present], maculated [participle, past], maculated [past]
Etymology: Latin maculātus, past participle of maculāre (“to spot”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|maculātus}} Latin maculātus, {{m|la|maculāre||to spot}} maculāre (“to spot”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} maculate (third-person singular simple present maculates, present participle maculating, simple past and past participle maculated)
  1. To spot; to stain; to blur. Translations (To spot; to stain; to blur): опетнявам (opetnjavam) (Bulgarian), загрязнять (zagrjaznjatʹ) (Russian), па́чкать (páčkatʹ) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-maculate-en-verb-Kwk2Aamg

Inflected forms

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