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v. - Decorate with wavy or winding lines adj. - Decorated with wormlike tracery or markings; Infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms.

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  • Adjective : vermiculate thought processes
  • Max Baucus's Medicare coverage for people exposed to asbestos in a vermiculate mine in Libby, Montana;
  • Surely, like as many substances in nature which are solid do putrefy and corrupt into worms; — so it is the property of good and sound knowledge to putrefy and dissolve into a...
  • On their backs were vermiculate patters that were maps of the world in its becoming.
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