Words that rhyme with decrepitate

• acetate 0
  n 1: a salt or ester of acetic acid [syn: acetate, ethanoate] 2: a fabric made from fibers of cellulose acetate [syn: acetate rayon, acetate]
• agitate 0
  v 1: try to stir up public opinion [syn: agitate, foment, stir up] 2: cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks" [syn: agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up] [ant: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize] 3: 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; "The liberal party pushed for reforms"; "She is crusading for women's rights"; "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate" [syn: crusade, fight, press, campaign, push, agitate] 4: move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat" [syn: stir, shift, budge, agitate] 5: move or cause to move back and forth; "The chemist shook the flask vigorously"; "My hands were shaking" [syn: shake, agitate] 6: change the arrangement or position of [syn: agitate, vex, disturb, commove, shake up, stir up, raise up]
• amputate 0
  v 1: remove surgically; "amputate limbs" [syn: amputate, cut off]
• annotate 0
  v 1: add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments; "The scholar annotated the early edition of a famous novel" [syn: annotate, footnote] 2: provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases; "He annotated on what his teacher had written" [syn: gloss, comment, annotate]
• apartheid 0
  n 1: a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa
• apostate 0
  adj 1: not faithful to religion or party or cause n 1: a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. [syn: deserter, apostate, renegade, turncoat, recreant, ratter]
• ate 0
  n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
• capacitate 0
  v 1: make legally capable or qualify in law 2: cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg 3: make capable; "This instruction capacitates us to understand the problem"
• cogitate 0
  v 1: consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind 2: use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments; "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere" [syn: think, cogitate, cerebrate]
• commentate 0
  v 1: make a commentary on 2: serve as a commentator, as in sportscasting
• commutate 0
  v 1: reverse the direction of (an alternating electric current) each half cycle so as to produce a unidirectional current
• crepitate 0
  v 1: make a crackling sound; "My Rice Krispies crackled in the bowl" [syn: crepitate, crackle]
• debilitate 0
  v 1: make weak; "Life in the camp drained him" [syn: enfeeble, debilitate, drain]
• decapitate 0
  v 1: cut the head of; "the French King was beheaded during the Revolution" [syn: decapitate, behead, decollate]
• delimitate 0
  v 1: determine the essential quality of [syn: specify, define, delineate, delimit, delimitate] 2: set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something [syn: demarcate, delimit, delimitate]
• dentate 0
  adj 1: having toothlike projections in the margin
• devastate 0
  v 1: 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] 2: overwhelm or overpower; "He was devastated by his grief when his son died"
• dictate 0
  n 1: an authoritative rule 2: a guiding principle; "the dictates of reason" v 1: issue commands or orders for [syn: order, prescribe, dictate] 2: say out loud for the purpose of recording; "He dictated a report to his secretary" 3: rule as a dictator
• disorientate 0
  v 1: cause to be lost or disoriented [syn: disorient, disorientate] [ant: orient, orientate]
• dissertate 0
  v 1: talk at length and formally about a topic; "The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England" [syn: hold forth, discourse, dissertate]
• edentate 0
  adj 1: having few if any teeth; "anteaters are edentate animals" [syn: edental, edentate, edentulate] n 1: primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America
• estate 0
  n 1: everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities 2: extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island" [syn: estate, land, landed estate, acres, demesne] 3: 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 [syn: estate of the realm, estate, the three estates]
• excogitate 0
  v 1: come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light" [syn: invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge] 2: 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]
• facilitate 0
  v 1: make easier; "you could facilitate the process by sharing your knowledge" [syn: facilitate, ease, alleviate] 2: be of use; "This will help to prevent accidents" [syn: help, facilitate] 3: increase the likelihood of (a response); "The stimulus facilitates a delayed impulse"
• felicitate 0
  v 1: express congratulations [syn: congratulate, felicitate]
• gestate 0
  v 1: have the idea for; "He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients"; "This library was well conceived" [syn: gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise] 2: be pregnant with; "She is bearing his child"; "The are expecting another child in January"; "I am carrying his child" [syn: have a bun in the oven, bear, carry, gestate, expect]
• gravitate 0
  v 1: move toward; "The conversation gravitated towards politics" 2: be attracted to; "Boys gravitate towards girls at that age" 3: move due to the pull of gravitation; "The stars gravitate towards each other"
• habilitate 0
  v 1: qualify for teaching at a university in Europe; "He habilitated after his sabbatical at a prestigious American university" 2: provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child" [syn: dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel] [ant: discase, disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress]
• hastate 0
  adj 1: (of a leaf shape) like a spear point, with flaring pointed lobes at the base [syn: hastate, spearhead- shaped]
• hesitate 0
  v 1: pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness; "Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures" [syn: hesitate, waver, waffle] 2: interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing; "The speaker paused" [syn: hesitate, pause]
• imitate 0
  v 1: reproduce someone's behavior or looks; "The mime imitated the passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older siblings" [syn: imitate, copy, simulate] 2: appear like, as in behavior or appearance; "Life imitate art" 3: make a reproduction or copy of
• incapacitate 0
  v 1: make unable to perform a certain action; "disable this command on your computer" [syn: disable, disenable, incapacitate] [ant: enable] 2: injure permanently; "He was disabled in a car accident" [syn: disable, invalid, incapacitate, handicap]
• interstate 0
  adj 1: involving and relating to the mutual relations of states especially of the United States; "Interstate Highway Commission"; "interstate highways"; "Interstate Commerce Commission"; "interstate commerce" [ant: intrastate] n 1: one of the system of highways linking major cities in the 48 contiguous states of the United States [syn: interstate, interstate highway]
• intestate 0
  adj 1: having made no legally valid will before death or not disposed of by a legal will; "he died intestate"; "intestate property" [ant: testate]
• irritate 0
  v 1: cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves" [syn: annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil] 2: excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame; "Aspirin irritates my stomach" [ant: soothe] 3: excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus; "irritate the glands of a leaf"
• lactate 0
  n 1: a salt or ester of lactic acid v 1: give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places" [syn: breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck] [ant: bottlefeed]
• levitate 0
  v 1: cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity; "The magician levitated the woman" 2: be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity; "The guru claimed that he could levitate" [syn: levitate, hover]
• meditate 0
  v 1: 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] 2: think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes; "He is meditating in his study" [syn: study, meditate, contemplate]
• militate 0
  v 1: have force or influence; bring about an effect or change; "Politeness militated against this opinion being expressed"
• misstate 0
  v 1: state something incorrectly; "You misstated my position"
• mutate 0
  v 1: undergo mutation; "cells mutate"
• necessitate 0
  v 1: 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] 2: cause to be a concomitant
• nictitate 0
  v 1: briefly shut the eyes; "The TV announcer never seems to blink" [syn: blink, wink, nictitate, nictate]
• orientate 0
  v 1: determine one's position with reference to another point; "We had to orient ourselves in the forest" [syn: orient, orientate] [ant: disorient, disorientate]
• overstate 0
  v 1: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery" [syn: overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify] [ant: downplay, minimise, minimize, understate]
• palpitate 0
  v 1: cause to throb or beat rapidly; "Her violent feelings palpitated the young woman's heart" 2: shake with fast, tremulous movements; "His nostrils palpitated" [syn: quiver, quake, palpitate] 3: beat rapidly; "His heart palpitated" [syn: palpitate, flutter]
• potentate 0
  n 1: a ruler who is unconstrained by law [syn: dictator, potentate]
• precipitate 0
  adj 1: done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king" [syn: hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous] n 1: a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering v 1: bring about abruptly; "The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution" 2: separate as a fine suspension of solid particles 3: fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum" [syn: precipitate, come down, fall] 4: fall vertically, sharply, or headlong; "Our economy precipitated into complete ruin" 5: hurl or throw violently; "The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below"
• premeditate 0
  v 1: consider, ponder, or plan (an action) beforehand; "premeditated murder" 2: think or reflect beforehand or in advance; "I rarely premeditate, which is a mistake"
• prostate 0
  adj 1: relating to the prostate gland [syn: prostate, prostatic] n 1: 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 [syn: prostate gland, prostate]
• regurgitate 0
  v 1: pour or rush back; "The blood regurgitates into the heart ventricle" 2: feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food; "many birds feed their young by regurgitating what they have swallowed and carried to the nest" 3: repeat after memorization; "For the exam, you must be able to regurgitate the information" [syn: regurgitate, reproduce] 4: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down]
• rehabilitate 0
  v 1: help to readapt, as to a former state of health or good repute; "The prisoner was successfully rehabilitated"; "After a year in the mental clinic, the patient is now rehabilitated" 2: reinstall politically; "Deng Xiao Ping was rehabilitated several times throughout his lifetime" [ant: purge] 3: restore to a state of good condition or operation
• reinstate 0
  v 1: restore to the previous state or rank 2: bring back into original existence, use, function, or position; "restore law and order"; "reestablish peace in the region"; "restore the emperor to the throne" [syn: restore, reinstate, reestablish]
• restate 0
  v 1: to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request" [syn: repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell]
• resuscitate 0
  v 1: cause to regain consciousness; "The doctors revived the comatose man" [syn: resuscitate, revive] 2: return to consciousness; "The patient came to quickly"; "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection" [syn: come to, revive, resuscitate]
• testate 0
  adj 1: having made a legally valid will before death [ant: intestate] n 1: a person who makes a will [syn: testator, testate]
• triacetate 0
  n 1: cellulose acetate that is relatively slow to burn; used instead of celluloid for motion-picture film [syn: cellulose triacetate, triacetate]
• understate 0
  v 1: represent as less significant or important [syn: understate, minimize, minimise, downplay] [ant: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate]
• upstate 0
  adv 1: in or toward the northern parts of a state; "he lives upstate New York"
• vegetate 0
  v 1: lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind 2: establish vegetation on; "They vegetated the hills behind their house" 3: produce vegetation; "The fields vegetate vigorously" 4: grow like a plant; "This fungus usually vegetates vigorously" 5: grow or spread abnormally; "warts and polyps can vegetate if not removed" 6: propagate asexually; "The bacterial growth vegetated along" 7: engage in passive relaxation; "After a hard day's work, I vegetate in front of the television" [syn: vege out, vegetate]
• sagittate 0
  adj 1: (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes [syn: sagittate, sagittiform, arrow-shaped]
• spectate 0
  v 1: be a spectator in a sports event
• auscultate 0
  v 1: examine by auscultation
• digitate 0
  adj 1: resembling a finger; "digitate leaves of the horse chestnut" [syn: digitate, fingerlike]
• sanitate 0
  v 1: provide with sanitary facilities or appliances
• ingurgitate 0
  v 1: overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream" [syn: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out]
• reorientate 0
  v 1: orient once again, after a disorientation [syn: reorientate, reorient]
• costate 0
  adj 1: (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture [syn: costate, ribbed] 2: having ribs
• peltate 0
  adj 1: (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) [syn: peltate, shield- shaped]
• septate 0
  adj 1: of or relating to a septum [syn: septal, septate]
• tungstate 0
  n 1: a salt of tungstic acid
• downstate 0
• instate 0
• tractate 0
• tridentate 0
• aydt 0
• ait 0
• punctate 0
• palmitate 0
• permutate 0
• superstate 0
• tridigitate 0
• cristate 0
• guttate 0
• scutate 0
• pernoctate 0

See also decrepitate definition