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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To experience menstruation or a menstrual period.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Menstruous.
  • To discharge the menses.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To discharge the menses; to have the catamenial flow.
  • adjective obsolete Menstruous.

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

[Late Latin mēnstruāre, mēnstruāt-, from Latin mēnstrua, menses, from neuter pl. of mēnstruus, menstrual; see menstrual.]

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