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JACTITATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move or stir about violently

Example:

The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed

Synonyms:

convulse; jactitate; slash; thrash; thrash about; thresh; thresh about; toss

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "jactitate" is one way to...):

agitate; shake (move or cause to move back and forth)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "jactitate"):

whip (thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash)

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

jactitation ((pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness)

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