Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To experience menstruation or a menstrual period.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To discharge the menses.
- Menstruous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Menstruous.
- intransitive verb To discharge the menses; to have the catamenial flow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To undergo
menstruation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb undergo menstruation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Today the most basic choice is whether or not to menstruate at all.
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The drugs allow women to menstruate just four or fewer times a year.
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Women may continue to menstruate, although their periods may grow irregular, falling closer together or farther apart.
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She did not mock the quasi-Maoist and wholly deranged ramblings of his Green Book – "according to gynaecologists, women, unlike men, menstruate each month", is a typical example of Gaddafian prose.
Lord Woolf's conflict of interest at the LSE | Nick Cohen 2011
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Later, when she began to menstruate, she felt embarrassed and ashamed by this monthly reminder of her femininity.
Wild Feminine Tami Lynn Kent 2011
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Women may continue to menstruate, although their periods may grow irregular, falling closer together or farther apart.
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Women menstruate on the full moon, ovulate on the new moon, and use lunaception as a form of contraception.
Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers Daniel Bruno Sanz 2010
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Women menstruate on the full moon, ovulate on the new moon, and use lunaception as a form of contraception.
Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers Daniel Bruno Sanz 2010
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Women menstruate on the full moon, ovulate on the new moon, and use lunaception as a form of contraception.
Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers Daniel Bruno Sanz 2010
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Here's what talk radio host (and convicted felon) G. Gordon Liddy had to say about the Supreme Court nominee: Let's hope that the key conferences aren't when [Sotomayor] 's menstruating or something, or just before she's going to menstruate.
Classy - poli 2009
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