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Dear all,

I am a PhD student in English linguistics, and I came across the verb "adrenalate" in the novel 2312. Here is the extract if it helps:

<< The cat began to shift onto Swan’s branch. Quite a weight to sway it that much.

“Pauline, any suggestions here?”

“Scare it,” Pauline said. “Adrenalate fully, then do something bizarre.”

Swan twisted and let go, fell feetfirst into the face of the cat, screaming as loud as she could. When her feet hit something else, she clasped branches to her and felt something smash into her ribs. Air knocked out of her, no more scream. She scrabbled with her feet for some purchase, found none, looked down. The cat was on the ground, looking up at her. Swan screamed again, felt the stab of a cracked rib. She changed to a raging shout, cursing the cat foully. Kill it like Archilochus. Grating, painful snarl of a voice, bitter shrieking that hurt her throat and screeched unbearably in her own ears, the sound making her aware she had lost it. The cat heaved a heavy sigh and padded away >>

Well, I am very interested in this verb "adrenalate", as I might include it in my data to analyse, but I don't understand what it means or where does it come from. Could anyone help me out?

I thank you very, very much in advance

Clos

I don't know for certain, but knowing the authors style, I'd bet it's a made up word to mean to pump one's self full of adrenalin. Since there's no English word to convey exactly that, Robinson created one.

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p72 "A kind of Menard graphic. The size of the spheres is determined by a compound function..." but, Menard seems to be misspelled... it should be Minard → https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/229-vital-statistics-of-a-deadly-campa...

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