Words that rhyme with bovate

v 1: put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits" [syn: trip, actuate, trigger, activate, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch off] 2: make active or more active; "activate an old file" [ant: deactivate, inactivate] 3: make more adsorptive; "activate a metal" 4: aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter [syn: activate, aerate] 5: make (substances) radioactive

v 1: sleep during summer; "certain animals estivate" [syn: estivate, aestivate] [ant: hibernate, hole up]

v 1: make worse; "This drug aggravates the pain" [syn: worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate] [ant: ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate] 2: exasperate or irritate [syn: exacerbate, exasperate, aggravate]

n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment

v 1: attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts" [syn: capture, enamour, trance, catch, becharm, enamor, captivate, beguile, charm, fascinate, bewitch, entrance, enchant]

v 1: foster the growth of 2: prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land" [syn: cultivate, crop, work] 3: teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" [syn: educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise] 4: adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil" [syn: domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame]

v 1: remove from active military status or reassign; "The men were deactivated after five years of service" 2: make inactive; "they deactivated the file" [syn: inactivate, deactivate] [ant: activate]

v 1: give a promotion to or assign to a higher position; "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work" [syn: promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise, elevate] [ant: break, bump, demote, kick downstairs, relegate] 2: raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load" [syn: raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up] [ant: bring down, get down, let down, lower, take down] 3: raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty" [syn: lift, raise, elevate]

v 1: weaken mentally or morally 2: disturb the composure of [syn: faze, unnerve, enervate, unsettle]

v 1: recover through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy"; "excavate gold" [syn: excavate, unearth] 2: find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden" [syn: excavate, dig up, turn up] 3: form by hollowing; "Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team"; "excavate a cavity" 4: remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside" [syn: excavate, dig, hollow]

v 1: release from military service or remove from the active list of military service [syn: demobilize, inactivate, demobilise] [ant: call up, mobilise, mobilize, rally] 2: make inactive; "they deactivated the file" [syn: inactivate, deactivate] [ant: activate]

v 1: supply nerves to (some organ or body part) 2: stimulate to action; "innervate a muscle or a nerve"

v 1: bring something new to an environment; "A new word processor was introduced" [syn: introduce, innovate]

v 1: give an incentive for action; "This moved me to sacrifice my career" [syn: motivate, actuate, propel, move, prompt, incite]

adj 1: of a leaf shape; egg-shaped with the broader end at the base 2: rounded like an egg [syn: egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval, oval-shaped, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate]

v 1: activate (an old file) anew

v 1: restore to a previous or better condition; "They renovated the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel" [syn: renovate, restitute] 2: make brighter and prettier; "we refurbished the guest wing"; "My wife wants us to renovate" [syn: refurbish, renovate, freshen up] 3: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify]

v 1: produce saliva; "We salivated when he described the great meal" 2: be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something; "She was salivating over the raise she anticipated" [syn: salivate, drool]

n 1: a compound formed by solvation (the combination of solvent molecules with molecules or ions of the solute) v 1: cause a solvation in (a substance) 2: undergo solvation or convert into a solvate

v 1: make neat, smart, or trim; "Spruce up your house for Spring"; "titivate the child" [syn: spruce up, spruce, titivate, tittivate, smarten up, slick up, spiff up]

adj 1: (of a leaf shape) egg-shaped with the narrower end at the base

adj 1: curved backward or inward [syn: recurved, recurvate]