punctuate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they punctuate | |
| he / she / it punctuates | |
| past simple punctuated | |
| past participle punctuated | |
| -ing form punctuating |
- [transitive, often passive] punctuate something (with something)
to interrupt something fairly often and regularly 不时打断 - [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
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’.