exiguate

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɪɡˈzɪɡju.eɪt/, /ɛɡˈzɪɡju.eɪt/

Verb

exiguate (third-person singular simple present exiguates, present participle exiguating, simple past and past participle exiguated)

  1. (obsolete) to shrink and reduce in quality or value; to become exiguous
    • 1860, Catherine Gore, The Lord and the Lout - Page 50‎:
      "Though defrauded of an earldom, he need not exiguate into a dwarf."
    • 2015, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, translated by Humphrey T. Davies, Leg Over Leg: Volumes Three and Four - Page 408‎:
      "My allotted portion of good things, my body, and my house—"
         "Each is exiguate, exiguate, exiguate."
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