Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to immolate
Participle: immolated
Gerund: immolating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | immolate |
| you | immolate |
| he;she;it | immolates |
| we | immolate |
| you | immolate |
| they | immolate |
Perfect
| I | have immolated |
| you | have immolated |
| he;she;it | has immolated |
| we | have immolated |
| you | have immolated |
| they | have immolated |
Past
| I | immolated |
| you | immolated |
| he;she;it | immolated |
| we | immolated |
| you | immolated |
| they | immolated |
Pluperfect
| I | had immolated |
| you | had immolated |
| he;she;it | had immolated |
| we | had immolated |
| you | had immolated |
| they | had immolated |
Future
| I | will immolate |
| you | will immolate |
| he;she;it | will immolate |
| we | will immolate |
| you | will immolate |
| they | will immolate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have immolated |
| you | will have immolated |
| he;she;it | will have immolated |
| we | will have immolated |
| you | will have immolated |
| they | will have immolated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | immolate |
| you | immolate |
| he;she;it | immolate |
| we | immolate |
| you | immolate |
| they | immolate |
Perfect
| I | have immolated |
| you | have immolated |
| he;she;it | have immolated |
| we | have immolated |
| you | have immolated |
| they | have immolated |
Imperfect
| I | immolated |
| you | immolated |
| he;she;it | immolated |
| we | immolated |
| you | immolated |
| they | immolated |
Pluperfect
| I | had immolated |
| you | had immolated |
| he;she;it | had immolated |
| we | had immolated |
| you | had immolated |
| they | had immolated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would immolate |
| you | would immolate |
| he;she;it | would immolate |
| we | would immolate |
| you | would immolate |
| they | would immolate |
Perfect
| I | would have immolated |
| you | would have immolated |
| he;she;it | would have immolated |
| we | would have immolated |
| you | would have immolated |
| they | would have immolated |
Imperative
| you | immolate |
| we | Let's immolate |
| you | immolate |
Verbs conjugated like 'immolate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'immolate'
immanate,
implate,
insolate,
isolate,
abvolate,
æmulate,
ambulate,
ammoniate,
avolate,
cumulate,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1548, "to sacrifice, kill as a victim," originally an adj. (1534), from L. immolatus, pp. of immolare "to sacrifice," originally "to sprinkle with sacrificial meal," from in- "upon" + mola (salsa) "(sacrificial) meal," related to molere "to grind."
2. The adjective is first attested in 1534, the verb in 1548; borrowed from Latin immolātus, perfect passive participle of immolō (“to sacrifice”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Sample Sentences
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Evidently some, or all, of the boars immolated themselves, for the train crew are reported to have picked up three dead boars and continued to Sézanne, the next stop, where they gave them to the local hospital cooks. [1957 December 26, “Wild Boars Charge French Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 840:]
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A secular style, a new beginning after the iconoclastic excesses under young Edward VI, when angels, Mothers and Children had flared and crackled in the streets, immolated to a logical absolute God who disliked images. [1978, A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden:]
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She imparted these stories gradually to Miss Crawley; gave her the whole benefit of them; felt it to be her bounden duty as a Christian woman and mother of a family to do so; had not the smallest remorse or compunction for the victim whom her tongue was immolating; nay, very likely thought her act was quite meritorious, and plumed herself upon her resolute manner of performing it. [1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:]