rusticate

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To be suspended or expelled temporarily from the university, either compulsorily or voluntarily. ambitransitive
    — The college rusticated him after he failed all his exams.
  2. To construct so as to produce jagged or heavily textured surfaces. transitive
  3. To compel to live in or to send to the countryside; to cause to become rustic. transitive
  4. To go to reside in the country. intransitive
    — So alarming did the state of my finances become, that I soon realized that I must either leave the metropolis and rusticate somewhere in the country, or that I must make a complete alteration in my style of living.

词形变化

rusticates present,singular,third-person rusticating participle,present rusticated participle,past rusticated past

词汇关系

词源

Borrowed from Latin rūsticātus, perfect active participle of rūsticor (“to live in the countryside”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), originally in the same sense. First attested in the mid-17th century. By surface analysis, rustic + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
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