tribulate

1. 1.

   oppress or trouble greatly

   Broaderafflict

Other forms of tribulate

past tense

tribulated·

present participle

tribulating·

third person

tribulates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tribulate

What does tribulate mean?

tribulate means "oppress or trouble greatly".

How many syllables are in tribulate?

tribulate has 3 syllables: tri-bu-late. The stress falls on "tri".

Is tribulate a common word?

tribulate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.