Words that rhyme with copulate
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abate
v 1: make less active or intense [syn: slake, abate, slack] 2: become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated"; "The rain let up after a few hours" [syn: abate, let up, slack off, slack, die away] -
ate
n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment -
await
v 1: look forward to the probable occurrence of; "We were expecting a visit from our relatives"; "She is looking to a promotion"; "he is waiting to be drafted" [syn: expect, look, await, wait] -
backdate
v 1: make effective from an earlier date; "The increase in tax was backdated to January" -
bait
n 1: anything that serves as an enticement [syn: bait, come- on, hook, lure, sweetener] 2: something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed [syn: bait, decoy, lure] v 1: harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride] 2: lure, entice, or entrap with bait 3: attack with dogs or set dogs upon -
bate
v 1: moderate or restrain; lessen the force of; "He bated his breath when talking about this affair"; "capable of bating his enthusiasm" 2: flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons 3: soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; "bate hides and skins" -
berate
v 1: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast] -
calculate
v 1: make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure] 2: judge to be probable [syn: calculate, estimate, reckon, count on, figure, forecast] 3: keep an account of [syn: account, calculate] 4: predict in advance [syn: forecast, calculate] 5: specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public [syn: calculate, aim, direct] 6: have faith or confidence in; "you can count on me to help you any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet on that!"; "Depend on your family in times of crisis" [syn: count, bet, depend, look, calculate, reckon] -
capitulate
v 1: surrender under agreed conditions -
circulate
v 1: become widely known and passed on; "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office" [syn: go around, spread, circulate] 2: cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news" [syn: circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around] 3: cause be distributed; "This letter is being circulated among the faculty" [syn: circulate, pass around, pass on, distribute] 4: move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point; "Blood circulates in my veins"; "The air here does not circulate" 5: move in circles [syn: circle, circulate] 6: cause to move in a circuit or system; "The fan circulates the air in the room" 7: move around freely; "She circulates among royalty" 8: cause to move around; "circulate a rumor" [syn: mobilize, mobilise, circulate] -
collate
v 1: compare critically; of texts 2: to assemble in proper sequence; "collate the papers" -
conflate
v 1: mix together different elements; "The colors blend well" [syn: blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge] -
crate
n 1: a rugged box (usually made of wood); used for shipping 2: the quantity contained in a crate [syn: crate, crateful] v 1: put into a crate; as for protection; "crate the paintings before shipping them to the museum" [ant: uncrate] -
create
v 1: make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" [syn: make, create] 2: bring into existence; "The company was created 25 years ago"; "He created a new movement in painting" 3: pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity; "Don't disturb him--he is creating" 4: invest with a new title, office, or rank; "Create one a peer" 5: create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses" [syn: create, make] 6: create or manufacture a man-made product; "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries" [syn: produce, make, create] -
date
n 1: the specified day of the month; "what is the date today?" [syn: date, day of the month] 2: a participant in a date; "his date never stopped talking" [syn: date, escort] 3: a meeting arranged in advance; "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date" [syn: date, appointment, engagement] 4: a particular but unspecified point in time; "they hoped to get together at an early date" [syn: date, particular date] 5: the present; "they are up to date"; "we haven't heard from them to date" 6: the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred; "he tried to memorizes all the dates for his history class" 7: a particular day specified as the time something happens; "the date of the election is set by law" 8: sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed v 1: go on a date with; "Tonight she is dating a former high school sweetheart" 2: stamp with a date; "The package is dated November 24" [syn: date, date stamp] 3: assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of; "Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings" 4: date regularly; have a steady relationship with; "Did you know that she is seeing an older man?"; "He is dating his former wife again!" [syn: go steady, go out, date, see] 5: provide with a dateline; mark with a date; "She wrote the letter on Monday but she dated it Saturday so as not to reveal that she procrastinated" -
debate
n 1: a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal; "the argument over foreign aid goes on and on" [syn: argument, argumentation, debate] 2: the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote) [syn: debate, disputation, public debate] v 1: argue with one another; "We debated the question of abortion"; "John debated Mary" 2: think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind" [syn: consider, debate, moot, turn over, deliberate] 3: discuss the pros and cons of an issue [syn: debate, deliberate] 4: have an argument about something [syn: argue, contend, debate, fence] -
depopulate
v 1: reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside" [syn: depopulate, desolate] -
flocculate
v 1: form into an aggregated lumpy or fluffy mass; "the protoplasms flocculated" 2: cause to become a fluffy or lumpy aggregate; "The chemist flocculated the suspended material" -
gesticulate
v 1: show, express or direct through movement; "He gestured his desire to leave" [syn: gesticulate, gesture, motion] -
manipulate
v 1: influence or control shrewdly or deviously; "He manipulated public opinion in his favor" [syn: manipulate, pull strings, pull wires] 2: hold something in one's hands and move it 3: tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" [syn: fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent] 4: manipulate in a fraudulent manner; "rig prices" [syn: rig, manipulate] 5: control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage; "She manipulates her boss"; "She is a very controlling mother and doesn't let her children grow up"; "The teacher knew how to keep the class in line"; "she keeps in line" [syn: manipulate, keep in line, control] 6: treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed -
osculate
v 1: be intermediate between two taxonomic groups; "These species osculate" 2: have at least three points in common with; "one curve osculates the other"; "these two surfaces osculate" 3: touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.; "The newly married couple kissed"; "She kissed her grandfather on the forehead when she entered the room" [syn: snog, kiss, buss, osculate] -
overpopulate
v 1: cause to have too great a population; "Some towns in New Jersey are becoming overpopulated" -
particulate
adj 1: composed of distinct particles [ant: nonparticulate] n 1: a small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant) [syn: particulate, particulate matter] -
peculate
v 1: appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family" [syn: embezzle, defalcate, peculate, misappropriate, malversate] -
perambulate
v 1: make an official inspection on foot of (the bounds of a property); "Selectmen are required by law to perambulate the bounds every five years" 2: walk with no particular goal; "we were walking around in the garden"; "after breakfast, she walked about in the park" [syn: perambulate, walk about, walk around] -
populate
v 1: inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods" [syn: populate, dwell, live, inhabit] 2: fill with inhabitants; "populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting" -
postulate
n 1: (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning [syn: postulate, posit] v 1: maintain or assert; "He contended that Communism had no future" [syn: contend, postulate] 2: take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom; "He posited three basic laws of nature" [syn: postulate, posit] 3: require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent" [syn: necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand] [ant: eliminate, obviate, rid of] -
recapitulate
v 1: summarize briefly; "Let's recapitulate the main ideas" [syn: recapitulate, recap] 2: repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life 3: repeat an earlier theme of a composition [syn: reprise, reprize, repeat, recapitulate] -
reticulate
adj 1: resembling or forming a network; "the reticulate veins of a leaf"; "a reticulated highway system" [syn: reticulate, reticular] [ant: nonreticulate] v 1: form a net or a network 2: distribute by a network, as of water or electricity 3: divide so as to form a network -
speculate
v 1: to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps" [syn: speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose] 2: talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion; "We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal" 3: reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate" [syn: chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate] 4: invest at a risk; "I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating" [syn: speculate, job] -
tabulate
v 1: arrange or enter in tabular form [syn: table, tabularize, tabularise, tabulate] 2: shape or cut with a flat surface -
vermiculate
adj 1: infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms [syn: vermiculate, worm-eaten, wormy] 2: decorated with wormlike tracery or markings; "vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework" [syn: vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated] v 1: decorate with wavy or winding lines -
pustulate
adj 1: (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin [syn: acned, pimpled, pimply, pustulate] -
sacculate
adj 1: formed with or having saclike expansions; "the alimentary tract is partially sacculated" [syn: sacculated, sacculate] -
mandibulate
adj 1: having mandibles -
infibulate
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aydt
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repopulate
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scrobiculate
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subulate
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