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1685–95; < Latin �������������ٳܲ�, past participle of ���������������� to be infested with maggots, to have racking pains, equivalent to vermin ( a ) racking pain + -��ٳܲ� -ate ¹; dual sense of ���������������� by association with vermis worm, maggot, vermin- being taken, perhaps erroneously, as an extended stem of this word