transverberate

English

Etymology

From Latin transverberatus, past participle of transverberare (“to strike or pierce through”).

Verb

transverberate (third-person singular simple present transverberates, present participle transverberating, simple past and past participle transverberated)

1. (obsolete) To beat or strike through.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “transverberate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

trānsverberāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of trānsverberō