fornicate | (verb) have sex without being married | - |
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furcate | (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: branch, fork, ramify, separate |
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hypothecate | (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: conjecture, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize |
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(verb) pledge without delivery or title of possession | - |
imbricate | (adjective) used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles | Synonyms: imbricated |
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(verb) overlap | - |
(verb) place so as to overlap | - |
imbricated | (adjective) used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles | Synonyms: imbricate |
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implicate | (verb) impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result | Synonyms: entail |
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(verb) bring into intimate and incriminating connection | - |
implicated | (adjective) culpably involved | Synonyms: concerned |
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imprecate | (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, curse, cuss, swear |
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(verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, maledict |
inculcate | (verb) teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions | Synonyms: infuse, instill |
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indelicate | (adjective) lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct | Synonyms: indecorous |
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(adjective) verging on the indecent | - |
(adjective) in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent | Synonyms: off-color, off-colour |
indicate | (verb) to state or express briefly | - |
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(verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: bespeak, betoken, point, signal |
(verb) give evidence of | Synonyms: argue |
(verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: designate, point, show |
(verb) suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine | - |
infuscate | (verb) darken with a brownish tinge, as of insect wings | - |
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intercommunicate | (verb) transmit thoughts or feelings | Synonyms: communicate |
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(verb) be interconnected, afford passage | - |
intoxicate | (verb) have an intoxicating effect on, of a drug | - |
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(verb) make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) | Synonyms: inebriate, soak |
(verb) fill with high spirits; fill with optimism | Synonyms: elate, lift up, pick up, uplift |
intoxicated | (adjective) stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: drunk, gone, inebriated, ripped |
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(adjective) as if under the influence of alcohol | Synonyms: drunk |
intricate | (adjective) having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate | - |
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intricately | (adverb) with elaboration | Synonyms: elaborately, in an elaborate way |
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lemniscate | (noun) any of several plane algebraic curves in the shape of a figure eight | - |
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locate | (verb) take up residence and become established | Synonyms: settle |
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(verb) discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining | Synonyms: turn up |
(verb) assign a location to | Synonyms: place, site |
(verb) determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey | Synonyms: situate |
located | (adjective) situated in a particular spot or position | Synonyms: placed, set, situated |
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locater | (noun) a person who fixes the boundaries of land claims | Synonyms: locator |
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lubricate | (verb) make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant | - |
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(verb) apply a lubricant to | Synonyms: lube |
(verb) have lubricating properties | - |
lubricated | (adjective) smeared with oil or grease to reduce friction | Synonyms: greased |
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manducate | (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: chew, jaw, masticate |
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masticate | (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: chew, jaw, manducate |
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(verb) grind and knead | - |
medicate | (verb) treat medicinally, treat with medicine | Synonyms: medicine |
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(verb) impregnate with a medicinal substance | - |
metricate | (verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system | Synonyms: metricise, metricize, metrify |
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muscatel | (noun) sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine | Synonyms: muscat, muscat grape |
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(noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscadelle, muscat |
obfuscate | (verb) make obscure or unclear | - |
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overdelicate | (adjective) extremely delicate | - |
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placate | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify |
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plicate | (verb) fold into pleats | Synonyms: pleat |
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pontificate | (noun) the government of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: papacy |
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(verb) talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner | - |
(verb) administer a pontifical office | - |
predicate | (noun) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements | Synonyms: verb phrase |
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(noun) (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula | - |
(verb) affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of | Synonyms: proclaim |
(verb) involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic | Synonyms: connote |
(verb) make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition | - |
prefabricate | (verb) to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings | Synonyms: preassemble |
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(verb) produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally | - |
prevaricate | (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, equivocate, palter, tergiversate |
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prognosticate | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, promise |
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(verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage |
provocateur | (noun) a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts | Synonyms: agent provocateur |
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quadruplicate | (adjective) having four units or components | Synonyms: four-fold, fourfold, quadruple, quadruplex |
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(noun) any four copies; any of four things that correspond to one another exactly | - |
(verb) reproduce fourfold | - |
radiolocate | (verb) locate by means of radar | - |
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reallocate | (verb) allocate, distribute, or apportion anew | Synonyms: reapportion |
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reciprocate | (verb) alternate the direction of motion of | - |
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(verb) act, feel, or give mutually or in return | - |
rededicate | (verb) dedicate anew | - |
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reduplicate | (verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: double, duplicate, repeat, replicate |
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(verb) form by reduplication | Synonyms: geminate |
relocate | (verb) become established in a new location | - |
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(verb) move or establish in a new location | - |
relocated | (adjective) settled in a new location | Synonyms: resettled |
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replicate | (verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: double, duplicate, reduplicate, repeat |
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(verb) reproduce or make an exact copy of | Synonyms: copy |
(verb) bend or turn backward | Synonyms: retroflex |
rubricate | (verb) sign with a mark instead of a name | - |
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(verb) decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red | Synonyms: miniate |
(verb) furnish with rubrics or regulate by rubrics | - |
(verb) place in the church calendar as a red-letter day honoring a saint | - |
rusticate | (verb) lend a rustic character to | - |
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(verb) give (stone) a rustic look | - |
(verb) send to the country | - |
(verb) suspend temporarily from college or university, in England | Synonyms: send down |
(verb) live in the country and lead a rustic life | - |
secateurs | (noun) small pruning shears with a spring that holds the handles open and a single blade that closes against a flat surface | - |
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silicate | (noun) a salt or ester derived from silicic acid | - |
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sophisticate | (noun) a worldly-wise person | Synonyms: man of the world |
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(verb) make more complex or refined | - |
(verb) alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive | Synonyms: doctor, doctor up |
(verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: convolute, pervert, twist, twist around |
(verb) make less natural or innocent | - |
sophisticated | (adjective) having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire | - |
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(adjective) ahead in development; complex or intricate | Synonyms: advanced |
(adjective) intellectually appealing | - |
spicate | (adjective) having or relating to spikes | - |
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suffocate | (verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | Synonyms: choke, gag, strangle |
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(verb) feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air | - |
(verb) be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen | Synonyms: asphyxiate, stifle |
(verb) suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of | Synonyms: choke |
(verb) become stultified, suppressed, or stifled | Synonyms: choke |
(verb) deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing | Synonyms: asphyxiate, smother |
(verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: asphyxiate, choke, stifle |
sulcate | (adjective) having deep narrow furrows or grooves | - |
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summercater | (noun) (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine | Synonyms: sport |
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summercaters | (noun) (Maine colloquial) temporary summer residents of coastal Maine | - |
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supplicate | (verb) ask humbly (for something) | - |
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(verb) ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer | - |
(verb) make a humble, earnest petition | - |
suricate | (noun) burrowing diurnal meerkat of southern Africa; often kept as a pet | Synonyms: Suricata tetradactyla |
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syllabicate | (verb) divide into syllables | Synonyms: syllabify, syllabise, syllabize |
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syncategorem | (noun) a syncategorematic expression; a word that cannot be used alone as a term in a logical proposition | Synonyms: syncategoreme |
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syncategorematic | (adjective) of a term that cannot stand as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition but must be used in conjunction with other terms | - |
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syncategoreme | (noun) a syncategorematic expression; a word that cannot be used alone as a term in a logical proposition | Synonyms: syncategorem |
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syndicate | (noun) an association of companies for some definite purpose | Synonyms: consortium, pool |
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(noun) a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities | Synonyms: crime syndicate, family, mob |
(noun) a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication | - |
(verb) sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations | - |
(verb) organize into or form a syndicate | - |
(verb) join together into a syndicate | - |
telecommunicate | (verb) communicate over long distances, as via the telephone or e-mail | - |
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translocate | (verb) move from one place to another, especially of wild animals | - |
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(verb) transfer (a chromosomal segment) to a new position | - |
trifurcate | (verb) divide into three | - |
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triplicate | (noun) one of three copies; any of three things that correspond to one another exactly | - |
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(verb) reproduce threefold | - |
truncate | (adjective) terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off | Synonyms: truncated |
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(verb) make shorter as if by cutting off | Synonyms: cut short |
(verb) approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one | - |
(verb) replace a corner by a plane | - |
truncated | (adjective) terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off | Synonyms: truncate |
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(adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: abbreviated, shortened |
tunicate | (noun) primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva | Synonyms: urochord, urochordate |
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umbilicate | (adjective) depressed like a navel | - |
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uncategorised | (adjective) not categorized or sorted | Synonyms: uncategorized, unsorted |
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uncategorized | (adjective) not categorized or sorted | Synonyms: uncategorised, unsorted |
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uncomplicated | (adjective) easy and not involved or complicated | Synonyms: elementary, simple, unproblematic |
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(adjective) lacking complexity | Synonyms: unsophisticated |
undedicated | (adjective) not dedicated | - |
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undereducated | (adjective) poorly or insufficiently educated | - |
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undomesticated | (adjective) unaccustomed to home life | - |
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(adjective) not domesticated | - |
uneducated | (adjective) not having a good education | - |
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unintoxicated | (adjective) not inebriated | Synonyms: uninebriated |
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unlocated | (adjective) lacking a particular location | - |
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unlubricated | (adjective) not lubricated | Synonyms: ungreased |
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unreciprocated | (adjective) not returned in kind | Synonyms: unanswered, unrequited |
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unsophisticated | (adjective) not wise in the ways of the world | Synonyms: unworldly |
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(adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial | Synonyms: bumpkinly, hick, rustic |
(adjective) lacking complexity | Synonyms: uncomplicated |
urticate | (verb) sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation | Synonyms: nettle |
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(verb) whip with or as with nettles | - |
vacate | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke |
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(verb) leave behind empty; move out of | Synonyms: abandon, empty |
(verb) leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily | Synonyms: give up, renounce, resign |
vellicate | (verb) irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear | Synonyms: pinch |
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(verb) touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements | Synonyms: tickle, titillate |
vesicate | (verb) get blistered | Synonyms: blister |
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vindicate | (verb) show to be right by providing justification or proof | Synonyms: justify |
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(verb) clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting proof | - |
(verb) maintain, uphold, or defend | - |
vindicated | (adjective) freed from any question of guilt | Synonyms: absolved, clear, cleared, exculpated, exonerated |
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