regrate

(rɪˈɡreɪt)

vb (tr)

1. (Stock Exchange) to buy up (commodities) in advance so as to raise their price for profitable resale

2. (Stock Exchange) to resell (commodities so purchased); retail

3. (Building) building trades to redress the surface of (hewn stonework)

[C15: from Old French regrater perhaps from re- + grater to scratch]

reˈgrater n

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regrate

Past participle: regrated
Gerund: regrating

Imperative
regrate
regrate

Present
I regrate
you regrate
he/she/it regrates
we regrate
you regrate
they regrate

Preterite
I regrated
you regrated
he/she/it regrated
we regrated
you regrated
they regrated

Present Continuous
I am regrating
you are regrating
he/she/it is regrating
we are regrating
you are regrating
they are regrating

Present Perfect
I have regrated
you have regrated
he/she/it has regrated
we have regrated
you have regrated
they have regrated

Past Continuous
I was regrating
you were regrating
he/she/it was regrating
we were regrating
you were regrating
they were regrating

Past Perfect
I had regrated
you had regrated
he/she/it had regrated
we had regrated
you had regrated
they had regrated

Future
I will regrate
you will regrate
he/she/it will regrate
we will regrate
you will regrate
they will regrate

Future Perfect
I will have regrated
you will have regrated
he/she/it will have regrated
we will have regrated
you will have regrated
they will have regrated

Future Continuous
I will be regrating
you will be regrating
he/she/it will be regrating
we will be regrating
you will be regrating
they will be regrating

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been regrating
you have been regrating
he/she/it has been regrating
we have been regrating
you have been regrating
they have been regrating

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been regrating
you will have been regrating
he/she/it will have been regrating
we will have been regrating
you will have been regrating
they will have been regrating

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been regrating
you had been regrating
he/she/it had been regrating
we had been regrating
you had been regrating
they had been regrating

Conditional
I would regrate
you would regrate
he/she/it would regrate
we would regrate
you would regrate
they would regrate

Past Conditional
I would have regrated
you would have regrated
he/she/it would have regrated
we would have regrated
you would have regrated
they would have regrated

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yf euer greife, yf euer woefull harte might move regrate, with sorowe of his falt I thinke the torment of my mornefull case knowen vttwardlie as I do fele the same would force evin wrathe her self to pittie me but as the water trobled with the mudd shewes not the face which els the eye should see euin so your Irefull mynd with stirred thought cannot so perfittlie decearne my cawse but this vnhapp amongst so many heapes I must content me with most wreched man that to my self I must referr my woe in pyninge thoughte of myne accursed fact.