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Date: 2014-07-03 2:05 GMT-05:00
Subject: estivate: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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Jul. 3, 2014

estivate \ES-tuh-veyt\ verb 1. to spend the summer, as at a specific place or in a certain activity. 2. Zoology. to spend a hot, dry season in an inactive, dormant state, as certain reptiles, snails, insects, and small mammals. Quotes So as the people we knew back East die, or are institutional... See full quote -- Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird, 1976 Origin Estivate derives from the Latin aestīvāre,... See full origin

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