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FORNICATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they fornicate ... he / she / it fornicates
Past simple: fornicated
Past participle: fornicated
-ing form: fornicating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Have sex without being married
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "fornicate" is one way to...):
bang; be intimate; bed; bonk; do it; eff; fuck; get it on; get laid; have a go at it; have intercourse; have it away; have it off; have sex; hump; jazz; know; lie with; love; make love; make out; roll in the hay; screw; sleep together; sleep with (have sexual intercourse with)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fornicate"):
swing (engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends)
whore (have unlawful sex with a whore)
wench (frequent prostitutes)
bed-hop; bedhop; sleep around (be sexually active with more than one partner)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
fornication (voluntary sexual intercourse between persons not married to each other)
fornicator (someone who commits adultery or fornication)
