vermiculate

1. 1.

   infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms

   Synonymsworm-eatenwormy

   Similarworn
2. 2.

   decorated with wormlike tracery or markings

   “vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework”

   Synonymsvermicularvermiculated

   Similarfancy

1. 1.

   decorate with wavy or winding lines

   Broaderdecorate

Other forms of vermiculate

past tense

vermiculated·

present participle

vermiculating·

third person

vermiculates·

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 vermiculate

What does vermiculate mean?

vermiculate means "infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vermiculate?

vermiculate has 4 syllables: ver-mi-cu-late. The stress falls on "mi".

What is another word for vermiculate?

Close synonyms include worm-eaten, wormy, vermicular, vermiculated. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vermiculate a common word?

vermiculate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.