bituminate

First attested in 1628; borrowed from Late Latin bitūminātus, perfect passive participle of bitūminō (“to bituminate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from bitūmen + verb-forming suffix.

• IPA^(key): (UK) /bɪˈtjuːmɪneɪt/, (US) /bəˈtuməneɪt/

bituminate (third-person singular simple present bituminates, present participle bituminating, simple past and past participle bituminated)

1. (transitive) To treat or impregnate with bitumen.

   Synonyms: bituminize, bituminise, bitumenize

   • 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:

     Bituminated walls of Babylon.

bituminate (plural bituminates)

1. A substance that has been treated with bitumen.
   • 1888 October, “Bituminate of Iodoform”, in The Epitome, number 34, page 509:

     Dr. Ehrmann has used the bituminate of iodoform with success in the treatment of soft chancres, especially phagedenic, as a dressing, after the opening of suppurating buboes, in gummy tumors and in ulcers of the leg.

bituminate

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

bituminate f pl

1. feminine plural of bituminato