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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin emulgeo, emulsum; e (“out”) + mulgeo (“to milk”); akin to English milk. See milk.
Pronunciation
Verb
emulge (third-person singular simple present emulges, present participle emulging, simple past and past participle emulged)
- (obsolete) To milk out; to drain.
1701, Peter Paxton, An Essay concerning the Body of Man:the Water cannot so readily subside and fall downwards , it may be the more plentifully emulged into the Bowels, and so that way discharged, as I have sometimes experienced.
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Latin
Verb
ēmulgē
- second-person singular present active imperative of ēmulgeō
Spanish
Verb
emulge
- inflection of emulger:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative