Words that rhyme with elevate

• 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
• 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]
• ate 0
  n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
• 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]
• 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]
• educate 0
  v 1: give an education to; "We must educate our youngsters better" 2: create by training and teaching; "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future" [syn: train, develop, prepare, educate] 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]
• enervate 0
  v 1: weaken mentally or morally 2: disturb the composure of [syn: faze, unnerve, enervate, unsettle]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• motivate 0
  v 1: give an incentive for action; "This moved me to sacrifice my career" [syn: motivate, actuate, propel, move, prompt, incite]
• obfuscate 0
  v 1: make obscure or unclear [ant: clarify, clear up, elucidate]
• ovate 0
  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]
• 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"
• reactivate 0
  v 1: activate (an old file) anew
• 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]
• 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]
• obovate 0
  adj 1: (of a leaf shape) egg-shaped with the narrower end at the base
• recurvate 0
  adj 1: curved backward or inward [syn: recurved, recurvate]
• photoduplicate 0
• aydt 0
• cate 0
• ait 0
• passivate 0
• coacervate 0
• demotivate 0
• bovate 0
• clavate 0
• nervate 0
• valvate 0
• margravate 0

See also elevate definition and elevate synonyms