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punctuate

verb
🔊/ˈpʌŋktʃueɪt/
🔊/ˈpʌŋktʃueɪt/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they punctuate
🔊/ˈpʌŋktʃueɪt/
🔊/ˈpʌŋktʃueɪt/
he / she / it punctuates
🔊/ˈpʌŋktʃueɪts/
🔊/ˈpʌŋktʃueɪts/
past simple punctuated
🔊/ˈpʌŋktʃueɪtɪd/
🔊/ˈpʌŋktʃueɪtɪd/
past participle punctuated
🔊/ˈpʌŋktʃueɪtɪd/
🔊/ˈpʌŋktʃueɪtɪd/
-ing form punctuating
🔊/ˈpʌŋktʃueɪtɪŋ/
🔊/ˈpʌŋktʃueɪtɪŋ/
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  1. [transitive, often passive] punctuate something (with something) to interrupt something fairly often and regularly不时打断
    • Her speech was punctuated by bursts of applause.她的讲演不时被阵阵掌声打断。🔊🔊
    • He punctuates his conversation with snatches of song.他用一小段歌曲打断他的谈话。
  2. [intransitive, transitive] punctuate (something) to divide writing into sentences and phrases by using special marks, for example commas, question marks, etc.给…加标点符号Topics Languagec1
    3. Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘point out’): from medieval Latin punctuat- ‘brought to a point’, from the verb punctuare, from punctum ‘a point’.