Meaning

1 senses

  1. To engage in incestuous sexual activities.

Examples

13 sentences

  1. Rape and incest are common themes.

    deVergewaltigung und Inzest sind häufige Thematiken. — Yorwba

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  2. Many animal species naturally engage in incest.

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  3. He engaged in incest with his younger sister.

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  4. The relationship of incest and abuse that existed between Tom and Mary resumed.

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  5. Incest occurs naturally in many animal species.

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Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin incestus. Displaced Old English mǣġhǣmed (literally “relative

Learned borrowing from Latin incestus. Displaced Old English mǣġhǣmed (literally “relative-sex”). Doublet of inchaste.

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Forms

incests, incesting, incested, incested
Base formincest · to incest
3rd person singularincests
Present participleincesting
Past simpleincested
Past participleincested

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyincest
he, she, itincests

Past simpleLesson

all personsincested

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave incested
he, she, ithas incested

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill incest

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
incentivizeinceptionincessantincessantlyinchA2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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