- incubate⇄incubate, verb, -bated,-bating.
- incubate⇄v.i. 1. to sit on eggs; brood.
2. (Medicine.) (of a disease) to go through the process of incubation.
3. (Figurative.) to undergo development.
Ex. Then nothing until Sartre, though plenty was incubating (Listener). - incubate⇄v.t. 1. to sit on (eggs) in order to hatch them; brood.
2. to keep (eggs, premature babies, cultures of microorganisms, or other living matter) warm, and supplied with moisture and oxygen, so that they will hatch or grow.
3. (Figurative.) t