Words that rhyme with crenellate

  • acidulate
    v 1: make sour or more sour [syn: sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify] [ant: dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten]
  • adulate
    v 1: flatter in an obsequious manner
  • assimilate
    v 1: take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe" [syn: absorb, assimilate, ingest, take in] 2: become similar to one's environment; "Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly" [ant: dissimilate] 3: make similar; "This country assimilates immigrants very quickly" [ant: dissimilate] 4: take (gas, light or heat) into a solution [syn: assimilate, imbibe] 5: become similar in sound; "The nasal assimilates to the following consonant" [ant: dissimilate]
  • ate
    n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
  • correlate
    adj 1: mutually related [syn: correlative, correlate, correlated] n 1: either of two or more related or complementary variables [syn: correlate, correlative] v 1: to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation; "Do these facts correlate?" 2: bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation; "I cannot correlate these two pieces of information"
  • demodulate
    v 1: extract information from a modulated carrier wave
  • desolate
    adj 1: providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape" [syn: bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark] 2: crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail" v 1: leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children" [syn: abandon, forsake, desolate, desert] 2: reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside" [syn: depopulate, desolate] 3: cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" [syn: lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge]
  • dissimilate
    v 1: become dissimilar by changing the sound qualities; "These consonants dissimilate" [ant: assimilate] 2: make dissimilar; cause to become less similar [ant: assimilate] 3: become dissimilar or less similar; "These two related tribes of people gradually dissimilated over time" [ant: assimilate]
  • fibrillate
    v 1: make fine, irregular, rapid twitching movements; "His heart fibrillated and he died"
  • flagellate
    adj 1: having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum) [syn: flagellate, flagellated, whiplike, lash- like] n 1: a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals [syn: flagellate, flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore] v 1: whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves" [syn: flagellate, scourge]
  • isolate
    v 1: place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates" [syn: isolate, insulate] 2: obtain in pure form; "The chemist managed to isolate the compound" 3: set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on" [syn: sequester, sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate] 4: separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them
  • modulate
    v 1: change the key of, in music; "modulate the melody" 2: vary the pitch of one's speech [syn: tone, inflect, modulate] 3: fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of; "regulate the temperature"; "modulate the pitch" [syn: regulate, modulate] 4: adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of 5: vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves)
  • oscillate
    v 1: be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action; "He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement" [syn: hover, vibrate, vacillate, oscillate] 2: move or swing from side to side regularly; "the needle on the meter was oscillating" [syn: oscillate, vibrate]
  • oxalate
    n 1: a salt or ester of oxalic acid
  • stridulate
    v 1: make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures; "male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers stridulate" [syn: stridulate, clitter]
  • tessellate
    v 1: fit together exactly, of identical shapes; "triangles tessellate" 2: tile with tesserae; "tessellate the kitchen floor"
  • undulate
    adj 1: having a wavy margin and rippled surface v 1: stir up (water) so as to form ripples [syn: ripple, ruffle, riffle, cockle, undulate] 2: occur in soft rounded shapes; "The hills rolled past" [syn: roll, undulate] 3: move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach" [syn: roll, undulate, flap, wave] 4: increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves; "The singer's voice undulated"
  • vacillate
    v 1: be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action; "He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement" [syn: hover, vibrate, vacillate, oscillate] 2: move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern; "the line on the monitor vacillated" [syn: fluctuate, vacillate, waver]
  • ventilate
    v 1: expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen; "air the old winter clothes"; "air out the smoke-filled rooms" [syn: vent, ventilate, air out, air] 2: expose to the circulation of fresh air so as to retard spoilage; "Wheat should be well ventilated" 3: circulate through and freshen; "The gust of air ventilated the room" 4: give expression or utterance to; "She vented her anger"; "The graduates gave vent to cheers" [syn: vent, ventilate, give vent] 5: furnish with an opening to allow air to circulate or gas to escape; "The architect did not think about ventilating the storage space"
  • crenelate
    v 1: supply with battlements [syn: crenel, crenelate, crenellate]
  • arillate
    adj 1: (of some seeds) having a fleshy and usually brightly colored cover [syn: ariled, arillate]
  • carboxylate
    v 1: treat (a chemical compound) with carboxyl or carboxylic acid
  • defibrillate
    v 1: stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks; "The patient's heart had to be defibrillated to save his life"
  • invigilate
    v 1: watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating) [syn: invigilate, proctor]
  • salicylate
    n 1: a salt of salicylic acid (included in several commonly used drugs)
  • aydt
  • ait
  • mamillate
  • methylate
  • pendulate
  • sigillate
  • pedicellate

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