Definition of "inchoated" [inchoated]

• Simple past tense and past participle of inchoate. (verb)

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• "In a way, the U-boats in the Aegean served as a blessing in disguise; they helped to squash many hare-brained schemes inchoated around Whitehall, and to consign them to oblivion before they became really dangerous."