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incubates

The correct spelling is incubates.

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verb

Say it like: Inc-uba-tes

The correct spelling is incubates. To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.

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Definition

verb

  1. 1.To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.
  2. 2.To incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation for hatching it.

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