decate

French décatir ("to remove the cati from"), from catir.

decate (third-person singular simple present decates, present participle decating, simple past and past participle decated)

1. To decatize (“steam fabric”).
   • 1955, Modern Textiles Magazine:

     It is therefore important to decate only very slightly.

   • 1956, John V. Haggard, Manufacture of Clothing, 1945-53, page 186:

     The Commanding General wished to know whether cloth going into storage should ever be decated. The opinion of the technologist was that , if the cloth was decated in the presence of DDT, the mothicide would steam-distill out […]

   • 2002, Marypaul Yates, Fabrics: A Guide for Interior Designers and Architects, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 159:

     Next it will be […] neatly rolled, and finally pressed or decated (pressed with steam). Each of these processes requires several hours and specific equipment.

decate

1. inflection of decatar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative