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English
Etymology
From con- + globule + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Verb
conglobulate (third-person singular simple present conglobulates, present participle conglobulating, simple past and past participle conglobulated)
- (rare, intransitive) To collect together into a compact round mass.
1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 393:‘Swallows certainly sleep all the winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the red of a river.’