MEANING
1. To join or gather into clumps through adhesion.
2. To form words by attaching distinct grammatical elements in sequence.
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Words that belong together
- agglutinate cells
- agglutinated particles
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The cells agglutinated along the damaged edge.
The reagent agglutinated the particles into visible clusters.
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Word forms
- Base
- agglutinate
- Past tense
- agglutinated
- Past participle
- agglutinated
- Present participle
- agglutinating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- agglutinate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are agglutinating
- Present perfect
- have/has agglutinated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been agglutinating
- Past
- agglutinated
- Past continuous
- was/were agglutinating
- Past perfect
- had agglutinated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been agglutinating
- Future
- will agglutinate
- Future continuous
- will be agglutinating
- Future perfect
- will have agglutinated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been agglutinating
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: agglutinate; agglutinates; agglutinated; agglutinated; agglutinating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: agglutinates.
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