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TRIFURCATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they trifurcate ... he / she / it trifurcates
Past simple: trifurcated
Past participle: trifurcated
-ing form: trifurcating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Divide into three
Example:
The road trifurcates at the bridge
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "trifurcate" is one way to...):
branch; fork; furcate; ramify; separate (divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
trifurcation (the act of splitting into three branches)
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