Words that rhyme with educate

• abdicate 0
  v 1: give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee" [syn: abdicate, renounce]
• activate 0
  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
• adjudicate 0
  v 1: put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of; "The football star was tried for the murder of his wife"; "The judge tried both father and son in separate trials" [syn: judge, adjudicate, try] 2: bring to an end; settle conclusively; "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance" [syn: decide, settle, resolve, adjudicate]
• advocate 0
  n 1: a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea [syn: advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent] 2: a lawyer who pleads cases in court [syn: advocate, counsel, counselor, counsellor, counselor-at-law, pleader] v 1: push for something; "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day" [syn: recommend, urge, advocate] 2: speak, plead, or argue in favor of; "The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house" [syn: preach, advocate]
• aestivate 0
  v 1: sleep during summer; "certain animals estivate" [syn: estivate, aestivate] [ant: hibernate, hole up]
• aggravate 0
  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]
• allocate 0
  v 1: distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose; "I am allocating a loaf of bread to everyone on a daily basis"; "I'm allocating the rations for the camping trip" [syn: allocate, apportion]
• altercate 0
  v 1: have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something" [syn: quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate]
• ate 0
  n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
• auspicate 0
  v 1: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict] 2: commence in a manner calculated to bring good luck; "They auspicated the trip with a bottle of champagne"
• authenticate 0
  v 1: establish the authenticity of something
• bifurcate 0
  adj 1: resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches; "the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects"; "a forked river"; "a forked tail"; "forked lightning"; "horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots" [syn: bifurcate, biramous, branched, forked, fork-like, forficate, pronged, prongy] v 1: split or divide into two 2: divide into two branches; "The road bifurcated"
• borosilicate 0
  n 1: a salt of boric and silicic acids
• captivate 0
  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]
• celebrate 0
  v 1: behave as expected during of holidays or rites; "Keep the commandments"; "celebrate Christmas"; "Observe Yom Kippur" [syn: observe, celebrate, keep] 2: have a celebration; "They were feting the patriarch of the family"; "After the exam, the students were celebrating" [syn: celebrate, fete] 3: assign great social importance to; "The film director was celebrated all over Hollywood"; "The tenor was lionized in Vienna" [syn: lionize, lionise, celebrate]
• certificate 0
  n 1: a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts [syn: certificate, certification, credential, credentials] 2: a formal declaration that documents a fact of relevance to finance and investment; the holder has a right to receive interest or dividends; "he held several valuable securities" [syn: security, certificate] v 1: present someone with a certificate 2: authorize by certificate
• cheapskate 0
  n 1: a miserly person [syn: cheapskate, tightwad]
• collocate 0
  v 1: have a strong tendency to occur side by side; "The words 'new' and 'world' collocate" 2: group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side [syn: collocate, lump, chunk]
• communicate 0
  v 1: transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to all employees"; "pass along the good news" [syn: communicate, pass on, pass, pass along, put across] 2: transmit thoughts or feelings; "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist" [syn: communicate, intercommunicate] 3: transfer to another; "communicate a disease" [syn: convey, transmit, communicate] 4: join or connect; "The rooms communicated" 5: be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas; "He and his sons haven't communicated for years"; "Do you communicate well with your advisor?" 6: administer Communion; in church [ant: curse, excommunicate, unchurch] 7: receive Communion, in the Catholic church [syn: commune, communicate]
• complicate 0
  v 1: make more complicated; "There was a new development that complicated the matter" [syn: complicate, perplex] [ant: simplify] 2: make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern" [syn: complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate]
• confiscate 0
  adj 1: surrendered as a penalty [syn: confiscate, forfeit, forfeited] v 1: take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority; "The FBI seized the drugs"; "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"; "The police confiscated the stolen artwork" [syn: impound, attach, sequester, confiscate, seize]
• contraindicate 0
  v 1: make a treatment inadvisable [ant: indicate, suggest]
• coruscate 0
  v 1: reflect brightly; "Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside" [syn: sparkle, scintillate, coruscate] 2: be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity; "The musical performance sparkled"; "A scintillating conversation"; "his playing coruscated throughout the concert hall" [syn: sparkle, scintillate, coruscate]
• cultivate 0
  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]
• deactivate 0
  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]
• debate 0
  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]
• decorticate 0
  v 1: remove the outer layer of; "decorticate a tree branch" 2: remove the cortex of (an organ)
• dedicate 0
  v 1: give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause; "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church" [syn: give, dedicate, consecrate, commit, devote] 2: open to public use, as of a highway, park, or building; "The Beauty Queen spends her time dedicating parks and nursing homes" 3: inscribe or address by way of compliment; "She dedicated her book to her parents" 4: set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church
• defalcate 0
  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]
• defecate 0
  v 1: have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds" [syn: stool, defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, make]
• demarcate 0
  v 1: separate clearly, as if by boundaries 2: set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something [syn: demarcate, delimit, delimitate]
• deprecate 0
  v 1: express strong disapproval of; deplore 2: belittle; "The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts" [syn: deprecate, depreciate, vilipend]
• desiccate 0
  adj 1: lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; "a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"; "a desiccate romance"; "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo [syn: arid, desiccate, desiccated] 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]
• dislocate 0
  v 1: move out of position; "dislocate joints"; "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically" [syn: dislocate, luxate, splay, slip] 2: put out of its usual place, position, or relationship; "The colonists displaced the natives"
• domesticate 0
  v 1: adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil" [syn: domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame] 2: overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons" [syn: domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame] 3: make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog" [syn: domesticate, tame]
• duplicate 0
  adj 1: identically copied from an original; "a duplicate key" 2: being two identical [syn: duplicate, matching, twin(a), twinned] n 1: something additional of the same kind; "he always carried extras in case of an emergency" [syn: extra, duplicate] 2: a copy that corresponds to an original exactly; "he made a duplicate for the files" [syn: duplicate, duplication] v 1: make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate] 2: duplicate or match; "The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse" [syn: twin, duplicate, parallel] 3: make a duplicate or duplicates of; "Could you please duplicate this letter for me?" 4: increase twofold; "The population doubled within 50 years" [syn: double, duplicate]
• elevate 0
  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]
• enervate 0
  v 1: weaken mentally or morally 2: disturb the composure of [syn: faze, unnerve, enervate, unsettle]
• equivocate 0
  v 1: be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information [syn: beat around the bush, equivocate, tergiversate, prevaricate, palter]
• eradicate 0
  v 1: kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" [syn: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off] 2: destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption" [syn: uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate]
• exarchate 0
  n 1: a diocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church [syn: eparchy, exarchate]
• excavate 0
  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]
• excommunicate 0
  v 1: exclude from a church or a religious community; "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner" [syn: excommunicate, unchurch, curse] [ant: communicate] 2: oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree
• explicate 0
  v 1: make plain and comprehensible; "He explained the laws of physics to his students" [syn: explain, explicate] 2: elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses; "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis" [syn: explicate, formulate, develop]
• exsiccate 0
  v 1: lose water or moisture; "In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly" [syn: exsiccate, dehydrate, dry up, desiccate] [ant: hydrate]
• extricate 0
  v 1: release from entanglement of difficulty; "I cannot extricate myself from this task" [syn: extricate, untangle, disentangle, disencumber]
• fabricate 0
  v 1: put together out of artificial or natural components or parts; "the company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They manufacture small toys"; He manufactured a popular cereal" [syn: manufacture, fabricate, construct] 2: make up something artificial or untrue [syn: fabricate, manufacture, cook up, make up, invent]
• falcate 0
  adj 1: curved like a sickle; "a falcate leaf"; "falcate claws"; "the falcate moon" [syn: falcate, falciform, sickle- shaped]
• fornicate 0
  v 1: have sex without being married
• hypothecate 0
  v 1: pledge without delivery or title of possession 2: 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]
• imbricate 0
  adj 1: used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles [syn: imbricate, imbricated] v 1: place so as to overlap; "imbricate the roof tiles" 2: overlap; "The roof tiles imbricate"
• implicate 0
  v 1: bring into intimate and incriminating connection; "He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government" 2: impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result; "What does this move entail?" [syn: entail, implicate]
• imprecate 0
  v 1: wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child" [syn: curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict] [ant: bless] 2: utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street" [syn: curse, cuss, blaspheme, swear, imprecate]
• inactivate 0
  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]
• inculcate 0
  v 1: teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; "inculcate values into the young generation" [syn: inculcate, instill, infuse]
• indicate 0
  v 1: be a signal for or a symptom of; "These symptoms indicate a serious illness"; "Her behavior points to a severe neurosis"; "The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued" [syn: bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal] 2: indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively; "I showed the customer the glove section"; "He pointed to the empty parking space"; "he indicated his opponents" [syn: indicate, point, designate, show] 3: to state or express briefly; "indicated his wishes in a letter" [ant: contraindicate] 4: give evidence of; "The evidence argues for your claim"; "The results indicate the need for more work" [syn: argue, indicate] 5: suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine; "Tetracycline is indicated in such cases" [syn: indicate, suggest] [ant: contraindicate]
• innervate 0
  v 1: supply nerves to (some organ or body part) 2: stimulate to action; "innervate a muscle or a nerve"
• innovate 0
  v 1: bring something new to an environment; "A new word processor was introduced" [syn: introduce, innovate]
• intercommunicate 0
  v 1: be interconnected, afford passage; "These rooms intercommunicate" 2: transmit thoughts or feelings; "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist" [syn: communicate, intercommunicate]
• intoxicate 0
  v 1: fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; "Music can uplift your spirits" [syn: elate, lift up, uplift, pick up, intoxicate] [ant: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down] 2: make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) [syn: intoxicate, soak, inebriate] 3: have an intoxicating effect on, of a drug
• locate 0
  v 1: discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining; "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing" [syn: locate, turn up] 2: determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey; "Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space"; "Locate the boundaries of the property" [syn: situate, locate] 3: assign a location to; "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles" [syn: locate, place, site] 4: take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest" [syn: settle, locate]
• lubricate 0
  v 1: have lubricating properties; "the liquid in this can lubricates well" 2: apply a lubricant to; "lubricate my car" [syn: lubricate, lube] 3: make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant; "lubricate the key"
• masticate 0
  v 1: grind and knead; "masticate rubber" 2: chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth; "He jawed his bubble gum"; "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"; "The cows were masticating the grass" [syn: chew, masticate, manducate, jaw]
• medicate 0
  v 1: impregnate with a medicinal substance 2: treat medicinally, treat with medicine [syn: medicate, medicine]
• obfuscate 0
  v 1: make obscure or unclear [ant: clarify, clear up, elucidate]
• placate 0
  v 1: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer" [syn: pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle]
• pontificate 0
  n 1: the government of the Roman Catholic Church [syn: papacy, pontificate] v 1: administer a pontifical office 2: talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner; "The new professor always pontificates"
• predicate 0
  n 1: (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula; "`Socrates is a man' predicates manhood of Socrates" 2: one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements [syn: predicate, verb phrase] v 1: make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition; "The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'" 2: affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of; "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President" [syn: predicate, proclaim] 3: involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic; "solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well" [syn: connote, predicate]
• prefabricate 0
  v 1: to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings [syn: prefabricate, preassemble] 2: produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally
• prevaricate 0
  v 1: be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information [syn: beat around the bush, equivocate, tergiversate, prevaricate, palter]
• prognosticate 0
  v 1: make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" [syn: predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise] 2: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict]
• quadruplicate 0
  adj 1: having four units or components; "quadruple rhythm has four beats per measure"; "quadruplex wire" [syn: quadruple, quadruplicate, quadruplex, fourfold, four-fold] n 1: any four copies; any of four things that correspond to one another exactly; "it was signed in quadruplicate" v 1: reproduce fourfold; "quadruplicate the bill"
• reallocate 0
  v 1: allocate, distribute, or apportion anew; "Congressional seats are reapportioned on the basis of census data" [syn: reapportion, reallocate]
• reciprocate 0
  v 1: act, feel, or give mutually or in return; "We always invite the neighbors and they never reciprocate!" 2: alternate the direction of motion of; "the engine reciprocates the propeller"
• rededicate 0
  v 1: dedicate anew; "They were asked to rededicate themselves to their country"
• reduplicate 0
  v 1: form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word" [syn: reduplicate, geminate] 2: make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate]
• relocate 0
  v 1: become established in a new location; "Our company relocated to the Midwest" 2: move or establish in a new location; "We had to relocate the office because the rent was too high"
• renovate 0
  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]
• replicate 0
  v 1: bend or turn backward [syn: retroflex, replicate] 2: reproduce or make an exact copy of; "replicate the cell"; "copy the genetic information" [syn: replicate, copy] 3: make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate]
• rusticate 0
  v 1: live in the country and lead a rustic life 2: send to the country; "He was rusticated for his bad behavior" 3: suspend temporarily from college or university, in England [syn: send down, rusticate] 4: give (stone) a rustic look 5: lend a rustic character to; "rusticate the house in the country"
• salivate 0
  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]
• silicate 0
  n 1: a salt or ester derived from silicic acid
• solvate 0
  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
• sophisticate 0
  n 1: a worldly-wise person [syn: sophisticate, man of the world] v 1: make less natural or innocent; "Their manners had sophisticated the young girls" 2: practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive; "Don't twist my words" [syn: twist, twist around, pervert, convolute, sophisticate] 3: alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol" [syn: sophisticate, doctor, doctor up] 4: make more complex or refined; "a sophisticated design"
• state 0
  n 1: the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; "his state is in the deep south" [syn: state, province] 2: the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state" 3: the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state; "the state has lowered its income tax" 4: a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land" [syn: state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic] 5: (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container); "the solid state of water is called ice" [syn: state of matter, state] 6: a state of depression or agitation; "he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him" 7: the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" [syn: country, state, land] 8: the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies; "the Department of State was created in 1789" [syn: Department of State, United States Department of State, State Department, State, DoS] v 1: express in words; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name" [syn: state, say, tell] 2: put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty" [syn: submit, state, put forward, posit] 3: indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.; "Can you express this distance in kilometers?" [syn: express, state]
• suffocate 0
  v 1: deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor" [syn: smother, asphyxiate, suffocate] 2: impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children" [syn: suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke] 3: become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating --living at home with his aged parents in the small village" [syn: suffocate, choke] 4: suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him" [syn: suffocate, choke] 5: be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow" [syn: suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate] 6: feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air; "The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating" 7: struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged" [syn: gag, choke, strangle, suffocate]
• supplicate 0
  v 1: ask humbly (for something); "He supplicated the King for clemency" 2: make a humble, earnest petition; "supplicate for permission" 3: ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer; "supplicate God's blessing"
• syndicate 0
  n 1: a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities [syn: syndicate, crime syndicate, mob, family] 2: an association of companies for some definite purpose [syn: consortium, pool, syndicate] 3: a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication v 1: join together into a syndicate; "The banks syndicated" 2: organize into or form a syndicate 3: sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations
• trifurcate 0
  v 1: divide into three; "The road trifurcates at the bridge"
• triplicate 0
  n 1: one of three copies; any of three things that correspond to one another exactly v 1: reproduce threefold; "triplicate the letter for the committee"
• truncate 0
  adj 1: terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid" [syn: truncate, truncated] v 1: replace a corner by a plane 2: approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one; "truncate a series" 3: make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains" [syn: truncate, cut short]
• tunicate 0
  n 1: primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva [syn: tunicate, urochordate, urochord]
• vacate 0
  v 1: leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily; "She vacated the position when she got pregnant"; "The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds" [syn: vacate, resign, renounce, give up] 2: leave behind empty; move out of; "You must vacate your office by tonight" [syn: vacate, empty, abandon] 3: cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence" [syn: revoke, annul, lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate]
• vindicate 0
  v 1: show to be right by providing justification or proof; "vindicate a claim" [syn: justify, vindicate] 2: maintain, uphold, or defend; "vindicate the rights of the citizens" 3: clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting proof; "You must vindicate yourself and fight this libel"
• sulcate 0
  adj 1: having deep narrow furrows or grooves
• manducate 0
  v 1: chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth; "He jawed his bubble gum"; "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"; "The cows were masticating the grass" [syn: chew, masticate, manducate, jaw]
• metricate 0
  v 1: convert from a non-metric to the metric system [syn: metricize, metricise, metrify, metricate]
• rubricate 0
  v 1: place in the church calendar as a red-letter day honoring a saint; "She was rubricated by the pope" 2: furnish with rubrics or regulate by rubrics; "the manuscript is not rubricated" 3: decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red; "In this beautiful book, all the place names are rubricated" [syn: miniate, rubricate] 4: sign with a mark instead of a name
• suricate 0
  n 1: burrowing diurnal meerkat of southern Africa; often kept as a pet [syn: suricate, Suricata tetradactyla]
• titivate 0
  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]

See also educate definition and educate synonyms