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Jan. 9, 2015
Word of the Day

interosculate Audio Pronunciation
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\in-ter-OS-kyuh-leyt\
verb
1. to form a connecting link.
2. to interpenetrate; inosculate.
Quotes
How all these words in the foregoing interrelate, interosculate, contaminate, and ape each other.
-- Walter Redfern, “A Little Bird Tells Us: Parrots in Flaubert, Queneau, Beckett (and Tutti Quanti),” Laughter and Power, edited by John Parkin and John Phillips, 2006
Origin
Interosculate entered English in the late 1800s from osculate meaning "to come into close contact or union" and the prefix inter- meaning "between" or “among.”
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