| ablactate | (verb) gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk | Synonyms: wean |
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| acetate | (noun) a fabric made from fibers of cellulose acetate | Synonyms: acetate rayon |
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| (noun) a salt or ester of acetic acid | Synonyms: ethanoate |
| agitate | (verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: commove, disturb, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex |
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| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on |
| (verb) move very slightly | Synonyms: budge, shift, stir |
| (verb) move or cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: shake |
| (verb) try to stir up public opinion | Synonyms: foment, stir up |
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: campaign, crusade, fight, press, push |
| amputate | (verb) remove surgically | Synonyms: cut off |
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| annotate | (verb) provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases | Synonyms: comment, gloss |
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| (verb) add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments | Synonyms: footnote |
| apostate | (adjective) not faithful to religion or party or cause | - |
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| (noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | Synonyms: deserter, ratter, recreant, renegade, turncoat |
| auscultate | (verb) examine by auscultation | - |
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| bidentate | (adjective) having toothlike projections that are themselves toothed | - |
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| capacitate | (verb) make capable | - |
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| (verb) cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg | - |
| (verb) make legally capable or qualify in law | - |
| capitate | (adjective) being abruptly enlarged and globose at the tip | - |
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| (noun) the wrist bone with a rounded head shape that articulates with the 3rd metacarpus | Synonyms: capitate bone, os capitatum |
| coarctate | (adjective) (of an insect pupa) enclosed in a rigid case | - |
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| cogitate | (verb) use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments | Synonyms: cerebrate, think |
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| (verb) consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind | - |
| commentate | (verb) serve as a commentator, as in sportscasting | - |
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| (verb) make a commentary on | - |
| commutate | (verb) reverse the direction of (an alternating electric current) each half cycle so as to produce a unidirectional current | - |
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| costate | (adjective) having ribs | - |
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| (adjective) (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture | Synonyms: ribbed |
| crepitate | (verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crackle |
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| debilitate | (verb) make weak | Synonyms: drain, enfeeble |
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| decapitate | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: behead, decollate |
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| decrepitate | (verb) to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops | - |
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| (verb) undergo decrepitation and crackle | - |
| delimitate | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimit, demarcate |
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| (verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimit, delineate, specify |
| dentate | (adjective) having toothlike projections in the margin | - |
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| devastate | (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste |
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| (verb) overwhelm or overpower | - |
| dictate | (noun) a guiding principle | - |
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| (noun) an authoritative rule | - |
| (verb) say out loud for the purpose of recording | - |
| (verb) issue commands or orders for | Synonyms: order, prescribe |
| (verb) rule as a dictator | - |
| digitate | (adjective) resembling a finger | Synonyms: fingerlike |
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| disorientate | (verb) cause to be lost or disoriented | Synonyms: disorient |
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| dissertate | (verb) talk at length and formally about a topic | Synonyms: discourse, hold forth |
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| edentate | (adjective) having few if any teeth | Synonyms: edental, edentulate |
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| (noun) primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America | - |
| estate | (noun) a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights | Synonyms: estate of the realm, the three estates |
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| (noun) extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use | Synonyms: acres, demesne, land, landed estate |
| (noun) everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities | - |
| excogitate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, forge, formulate, invent |
| facilitate | (verb) make easier | Synonyms: alleviate, ease |
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| (verb) increase the likelihood of (a response) | - |
| (verb) be of use | Synonyms: help |
| felicitate | (verb) express congratulations | Synonyms: congratulate |
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| gestate | (verb) be pregnant with | Synonyms: bear, carry, expect, have a bun in the oven |
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| (verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceive, conceptualise, conceptualize |
| gravitate | (verb) move due to the pull of gravitation | - |
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| (verb) be attracted to | - |
| (verb) move toward | - |
| habilitate | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, raiment, tog |
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| (verb) qualify for teaching at a university in Europe | - |
| hastate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) like a spear point, with flaring pointed lobes at the base | Synonyms: spearhead-shaped |
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| hesitate | (verb) pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness | Synonyms: waffle, waver |
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| (verb) interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing | Synonyms: pause |
| imitate | (verb) reproduce someone's behavior or looks | Synonyms: copy, simulate |
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| (verb) make a reproduction or copy of | - |
| (verb) appear like, as in behavior or appearance | - |
| incapacitate | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, handicap, invalid |
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| (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disable, disenable |
| ingurgitate | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| instrumentate | (verb) write an instrumental score for | Synonyms: instrument |
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| interstate | (adjective) involving and relating to the mutual relations of states especially of the United States | - |
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| (noun) one of the system of highways linking major cities in the 48 contiguous states of the United States | Synonyms: interstate highway |
| intestate | (adjective) having made no legally valid will before death or not disposed of by a legal will | - |
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| intrastate | (adjective) relating to or existing within the boundaries of a state | - |
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| irritate | (verb) excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame | - |
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| (verb) excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus | - |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| jactitate | (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
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| lactate | (noun) a salt or ester of lactic acid | - |
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| (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, nurse, suck, suckle, wet-nurse |
| levitate | (verb) be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity | Synonyms: hover |
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| (verb) cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity | - |
| meditate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: contemplate, study |
| mellitate | (noun) a salt of mellitic acid. | - |
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| militate | (verb) have force or influence; bring about an effect or change | - |
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| misstate | (verb) state something incorrectly | - |
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| mussitate | (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: maunder, mumble, mutter |
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| mutate | (verb) undergo mutation | - |
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| necessitate | (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, need, postulate, require, take |
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| (verb) cause to be a concomitant | - |
| nictate | (verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: blink, nictitate, wink |
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| nictitate | (verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: blink, nictate, wink |
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| notate | (verb) put into notation, as of music or choreography | - |
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| nutate | (verb) rock, sway, or nod; usually involuntarily | - |
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| orientate | (verb) determine one's position with reference to another point | Synonyms: orient |
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| ostentate | (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flash, flaunt, show off, swank |
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| overstate | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw |
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| oxalacetate | (noun) a salt or ester of oxalacetic acid | Synonyms: oxaloacetate |
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| oxaloacetate | (noun) a salt or ester of oxalacetic acid | Synonyms: oxalacetate |
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| palpitate | (verb) beat rapidly | Synonyms: flutter |
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| (verb) shake with fast, tremulous movements | Synonyms: quake, quiver |
| (verb) cause to throb or beat rapidly | - |
| peltate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) round, with the stem attached near the center of the lower surface rather than the margin (as a nasturtium leaf for example) | Synonyms: shield-shaped |
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| potentate | (noun) a ruler who is unconstrained by law | Synonyms: dictator |
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| precipitate | (adjective) done with very great haste and without due deliberation | Synonyms: hasty, overhasty, precipitant, precipitous |
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| (noun) a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering | - |
| (verb) separate as a fine suspension of solid particles | - |
| (verb) hurl or throw violently | - |
| (verb) bring about abruptly | - |
| (verb) fall vertically, sharply, or headlong | - |
| (verb) fall from clouds | Synonyms: come down, fall |
| premeditate | (verb) consider, ponder, or plan (an action) beforehand | - |
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| (verb) think or reflect beforehand or in advance | - |
| prostate | (adjective) relating to the prostate gland | Synonyms: prostatic |
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| (noun) a firm partly muscular chestnut sized gland in males at the neck of the urethra; produces a viscid secretion that is the fluid part of semen | Synonyms: prostate gland |
| regurgitate | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| (verb) repeat after memorization | Synonyms: reproduce |
| (verb) feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food | - |
| (verb) pour or rush back | - |
| rehabilitate | (verb) help to readapt, as to a former state of health or good repute | - |
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| (verb) reinstall politically | - |
| (verb) restore to a state of good condition or operation | - |
| reinstate | (verb) restore to the previous state or rank | - |
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| (verb) bring back into original existence, use, function, or position | Synonyms: reestablish, restore |
| reorientate | (verb) orient once again, after a disorientation | Synonyms: reorient |
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| restate | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, retell |
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| resuscitate | (verb) cause to regain consciousness | Synonyms: revive |
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| (verb) return to consciousness | Synonyms: come to, revive |
| rotate | (verb) plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession | - |
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| (verb) perform a job or duty on a rotating basis | - |
| (verb) cause to turn on an axis or center | Synonyms: circumvolve |
| (verb) turn on or around an axis or a center | Synonyms: go around, revolve |
| (verb) turn outward | Synonyms: splay, spread out, turn out |
| (verb) exchange on a regular basis | - |
| sagittate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes | Synonyms: arrow-shaped, sagittiform |
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| saltate | (verb) leap or skip, often in dancing | - |
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| (verb) move by saltation | - |
| sanitate | (verb) provide with sanitary facilities or appliances | - |
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| septate | (adjective) of or relating to a septum | Synonyms: septal |
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| spectate | (verb) be a spectator in a sports event | - |
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| state | (noun) the way something is with respect to its main attributes | - |
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| (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, commonwealth, country, land, nation, res publica |
| (noun) the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state | - |
| (noun) the territory occupied by a nation | Synonyms: country, land |
| (noun) the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation | Synonyms: province |
| (noun) a state of depression or agitation | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container) | Synonyms: state of matter |
| (verb) express in words | Synonyms: say, tell |
| (verb) put before | Synonyms: posit, put forward, submit |
| (verb) indicate through a symbol, formula, etc. | Synonyms: express |
| superfetate | (verb) conceive when a fetus is already present in the uterus | - |
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| testate | (adjective) having made a legally valid will before death | - |
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| (noun) a person who makes a will | Synonyms: testator |
| tomtate | (noun) found off the West Indies and Florida | Synonyms: Haemulon aurolineatum |
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| triacetate | (noun) cellulose acetate that is relatively slow to burn; used instead of celluloid for motion-picture film | Synonyms: cellulose triacetate |
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| tungstate | (noun) a salt of tungstic acid | - |
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| understate | (verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: downplay, minimise, minimize |
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| upstate | (adverb) in or toward the northern parts of a state | - |
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| vegetate | (verb) engage in passive relaxation | Synonyms: veg out |
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| (verb) propagate asexually | - |
| (verb) grow like a plant | - |
| (verb) produce vegetation | - |
| (verb) establish vegetation on | - |
| (verb) grow or spread abnormally | - |
| (verb) lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind | - |