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gestate
gestate
English
Verb
gestate (third-person singular simple present gestates, present participle gestating, simple past and past participle gestated)
Quotations
- to develop an idea
- 1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, Penguin, paperback edition, page 112
- Philip wondered at that five-year gap. Perhaps it simply proved that a work of genius takes longer to gestate than a work of mere competent brilliance.