intubate

From in- +‎ tube +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix). First appears c. 1612 in the publications of Simon Sturtevant.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪntjʊbeɪt/; (yod-coalescence) /ˈɪntʃʊbeɪt/, /ˈɪntʃəbeɪt/

  • Audio (Southern England); /ˈɪntʃʊbeɪt/:

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• (General American, yod-dropping) IPA^(key): /ˈɪntʊbeɪt/, /ˈɪntəbeɪt/

intubate (third-person singular simple present intubates, present participle intubating, simple past and past participle intubated)

1. (transitive, medicine) To insert a tube into.

   The doctor is about to intubate the patient's trachea.

   • 1886 July 6, J. K. White, “HINTS IN PRACTICE”, in Canadian Practitioner:

     you have no right to withhold it, unless you intubate. Intubation of the larynx I have never tried, but I have a tube ready in my office ever since I read an article on it a short time ago

intubate

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

intubate f pl

1. feminine plural of intubato

intubate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of intubar combined with te