Words that rhyme with biserrate
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aerate
v 1: expose to fresh air; "aerate your old sneakers" [syn: air out, air, aerate] 2: aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter [syn: activate, aerate] 3: impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen; "oxygenate blood" [syn: oxygenate, oxygenize, oxygenise, aerate] -
ate
n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment -
chlorate
n 1: any salt of chloric acid -
decelerate
v 1: lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated" [syn: decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retard] [ant: accelerate, quicken, speed, speed up] 2: reduce the speed of; "He slowed down the car" [syn: decelerate, slow down] [ant: accelerate, speed, speed up] -
decorate
v 1: make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day" [syn: decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify] 2: be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere" [syn: deck, adorn, decorate, grace, embellish, beautify] 3: award a mark of honor, such as a medal, to; "He was decorated for his services in the military" 4: provide with decoration; "dress the windows" [syn: dress, decorate] -
deflagrate
v 1: cause to burn rapidly and with great intensity; "care must be exercised when this substance is to be deflagrated" 2: burn with great heat and intense light; "the powder deflagrated" -
dehydrate
v 1: preserve by removing all water and liquids from; "carry dehydrated food on your camping trip" [syn: dehydrate, desiccate] 2: remove water from; "All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me" [syn: dehydrate, desiccate] 3: lose water or moisture; "In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly" [syn: exsiccate, dehydrate, dry up, desiccate] [ant: hydrate] -
demonstrate
v 1: give an exhibition of to an interested audience; "She shows her dogs frequently"; "We will demo the new software in Washington" [syn: show, demo, exhibit, present, demonstrate] 2: establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture" [syn: prove, demonstrate, establish, show, shew] [ant: confute, disprove] 3: provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes; "His high fever attested to his illness"; "The buildings in Rome manifest a high level of architectural sophistication"; "This decision demonstrates his sense of fairness" [syn: attest, certify, manifest, demonstrate, evidence] 4: march in protest; take part in a demonstration; "Thousands demonstrated against globalization during the meeting of the most powerful economic nations in Seattle" [syn: demonstrate, march] -
denigrate
v 1: cause to seem less serious; play down; "Don't belittle his influence" [syn: minimize, belittle, denigrate, derogate] 2: charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation" [syn: defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch] -
deteriorate
v 1: become worse or disintegrate; "His mind deteriorated" 2: grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match" [syn: devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate] [ant: convalesce, recover, recuperate] -
disintegrate
v 1: break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity; "The material disintegrated"; "the group disintegrated after the leader died" [ant: incorporate, integrate] 2: cause to undergo fission or lose particles 3: lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process" [syn: disintegrate, decay, decompose] -
filtrate
n 1: the product of filtration; a gas or liquid that has been passed through a filter v 1: remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities" [syn: filter, filtrate, strain, separate out, filter out] -
frustrate
v 1: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" [syn: thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk] 2: treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" [syn: torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate] -
gyrate
v 1: to wind or move in a spiral course; "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor" [syn: gyrate, spiral, coil] 2: revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy" [syn: spin, spin around, whirl, reel, gyrate] -
hydrate
n 1: any compound that contains water of crystallization v 1: supply water or liquid to in order to maintain a healthy balance; "the bicyclists must be hydrated frequently" 2: become hydrated and combine with water 3: cause to be hydrated; add water or moisture to; "hydrate your skin" [ant: dehydrate, desiccate, dry up, exsiccate] -
ingrate
n 1: a person who shows no gratitude [syn: ingrate, thankless wretch, ungrateful person] -
irate
adj 1: feeling or showing extreme anger; "irate protesters"; "ireful words" [syn: irate, ireful] -
narrate
v 1: provide commentary for a film, for example 2: narrate or give a detailed account of; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child" [syn: tell, narrate, recount, recite] -
nitrate
n 1: any compound containing the nitrate group (such as a salt or ester of nitric acid) v 1: treat with nitric acid, so as to change an organic compound into a nitrate; "nitroglycerin is obtained by nitrating glycerol" -
orate
v 1: talk pompously -
prorate
v 1: make a proportional settlement or distribution 2: divide or assess proportionally; "The rent was prorated for the rest of the month" -
prostrate
adj 1: stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor" [syn: flat, prostrate] 2: lying face downward [syn: prone, prostrate] v 1: get into a prostrate position, as in submission [syn: prostrate, bow down] 2: render helpless or defenseless; "They prostrated the enemy" 3: throw down flat, as on the ground; "She prostrated herself with frustration" -
serrate
adj 1: notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex [syn: serrate, serrated, saw-toothed, toothed, notched] v 1: make saw-toothed or jag the edge of; "serrate the edges of the teeth" -
substrate
n 1: the substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment 2: a surface on which an organism grows or is attached; "the gardener talked about the proper substrate for acid-loving plants" [syn: substrate, substratum] 3: any stratum or layer lying underneath another [syn: substrate, substratum] 4: an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population; "the Celtic languages of Britain are a substrate for English" [syn: substrate, substratum] -
titrate
v 1: measure by (the volume or concentration of solutions) by titration -
derate
v 1: lower the rated electrical capability of electrical apparatus -
lyrate
adj 1: (of a leaf shape) having curvature suggestive of a lyre -
deaerate
v 1: remove air or gas from [syn: deaerate, de-aerate] -
ferrate
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picrate
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