insalivate

English

Verb

insalivate (third-person singular simple present insalivates, present participle insalivating, simple past and past participle insalivated)

1. (transitive) To mix with saliva, as when eating.
   • 1913, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, volume 6, page 281:

     The results of insalivating milk are very suggestive that saliva has a bactericidal or anti-putrefactive function.

Related terms

• insalivation

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

insalivate

1. inflection of insalivare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

insalivate f pl

1. feminine plural of insalivato

Anagrams

• inalveasti, insilavate