Words that rhyme with eliminate

  • abominate
    v 1: find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats" [syn: abhor, loathe, abominate, execrate]
  • ate
    n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
  • contaminate
    v 1: make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" [syn: pollute, foul, contaminate] 2: make radioactive by adding radioactive material; "Don't drink the water--it's contaminated" [ant: decontaminate]
  • criminate
    v 1: bring an accusation against; level a charge against; "The neighbors accused the man of spousal abuse" [syn: accuse, impeach, incriminate, criminate] 2: rebuke formally [syn: reprimand, censure, criminate]
  • culminate
    v 1: end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage; "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace" [syn: culminate, climax] 2: bring to a head or to the highest point; "Seurat culminated pointillism" 3: reach the highest or most decisive point 4: reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body 5: rise to, or form, a summit; "The helmet culminated in a crest"
  • decontaminate
    v 1: rid of contamination; "The soil around the housing development had to be decontaminated by the city" [ant: contaminate]
  • denominate
    v 1: assign a name or title to [syn: designate, denominate]
  • discriminate
    adj 1: marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions; "discriminate judgments"; "discriminate people" [ant: indiscriminate] v 1: recognize or perceive the difference [syn: discriminate, know apart] 2: treat differently on the basis of sex or race [syn: discriminate, separate, single out] 3: distinguish; "I could not discriminate the different tastes in this complicated dish"
  • disseminate
    v 1: 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]
  • dominate
    v 1: be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance; "Money reigns supreme here"; "Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood" [syn: predominate, dominate, rule, reign, prevail] 2: be in control; "Her husband completely dominates her" 3: have dominance or the power to defeat over; "Her pain completely mastered her"; "The methods can master the problems" [syn: dominate, master] 4: be greater in significance than; "the tragedy overshadowed the couple's happiness" [syn: overshadow, dominate, eclipse] 5: look down on; "The villa dominates the town" [syn: dominate, command, overlook, overtop]
  • exterminate
    v 1: kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe" [syn: exterminate, kill 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]
  • fulminate
    n 1: a salt or ester of fulminic acid v 1: criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies" [syn: fulminate, rail] 2: come on suddenly and intensely; "the disease fulminated" 3: cause to explode violently and with loud noise
  • geminate
    n 1: a doubled or long consonant; "the `n' in `thinness' is a geminate" 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: occur in pairs [syn: pair, geminate] 3: arrange in pairs; "Pair these numbers" [syn: pair, geminate] 4: arrange or combine in pairs; "The consonants are geminated in these words"
  • germinate
    v 1: produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted" [syn: shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout] 2: work out; "We have developed a new theory of evolution" [syn: evolve, germinate, develop] 3: cause to grow or sprout; "the plentiful rain germinated my plants"
  • illuminate
    v 1: make lighter or brighter; "This lamp lightens the room a bit" [syn: light, illume, illumine, light up, illuminate] 2: make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault" [syn: clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate, elucidate] 3: add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts)
  • incriminate
    v 1: suggest that someone is guilty [syn: incriminate, imply, inculpate] 2: bring an accusation against; level a charge against; "The neighbors accused the man of spousal abuse" [syn: accuse, impeach, incriminate, criminate]
  • ingeminate
    v 1: to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request" [syn: repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell]
  • inseminate
    v 1: place seeds in or on (the ground); "sow the ground with sunflower seeds" [syn: inseminate, sow, sow in] 2: introduce semen into (a female) [syn: inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise]
  • laminate
    n 1: a sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or layers v 1: create laminate by bonding sheets of material with a bonding material 2: press or beat (metals) into thin sheets 3: cover with a thin sheet of non-fabric material; "laminate the table" 4: split (wood) into thin sheets
  • nominate
    v 1: propose as a candidate for some honor [syn: nominate, put up, put forward] 2: put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position; "The President nominated her as head of the Civil Rights Commission" [syn: nominate, propose] 3: charge with a function; charge to be; "She was named Head of the Committee"; "She was made president of the club" [syn: name, nominate, make] 4: create and charge with a task or function; "nominate a committee" [syn: appoint, name, nominate, constitute]
  • obstinate
    adj 1: tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield [syn: stubborn, obstinate, unregenerate] [ant: docile] 2: stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing [syn: cussed, obdurate, obstinate, unrepentant] 3: resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior" [syn: contrary, obstinate, perverse, wayward] v 1: persist stubbornly; "he obstinates himself against all rational arguments"
  • ordinate
    n 1: the value of a coordinate on the vertical axis v 1: appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church" [syn: ordain, consecrate, ordinate, order] 2: bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation; "align the wheels of my car"; "ordinate similar parts" [syn: align, ordinate, coordinate]
  • palatinate
    n 1: a territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine [syn: Palatinate, Pfalz] 2: a territory under the jurisdiction of a count palatine
  • pinnate
    adj 1: (of a leaf shape) featherlike; having leaflets on each side of a common axis [syn: pinnate, pinnated]
  • pomegranate
    n 1: shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit [syn: pomegranate, pomegranate tree, Punica granatum] 2: large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough brownish-red rind
  • predominate
    adj 1: having superior power and influence; "the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism" [syn: overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant, preponderating] v 1: be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance; "Money reigns supreme here"; "Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood" [syn: predominate, dominate, rule, reign, prevail] 2: appear very large or occupy a commanding position; "The huge sculpture predominates over the fountain"; "Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall" [syn: loom, tower, predominate, hulk]
  • rabbinate
    n 1: rabbis collectively 2: the office or function of a rabbi
  • recriminate
    v 1: return an accusation against someone or engage in mutual accusations; charge in return
  • reincarnate
    adj 1: having a new body v 1: be born anew in another body after death; "Hindus believe that we transmigrate" [syn: reincarnate, transmigrate] 2: cause to appear in a new form; "the old product was reincarnated to appeal to a younger market" [syn: reincarnate, renew]
  • rennet
    n 1: a substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket
  • ruminate
    v 1: chew the cuds; "cows ruminate" 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]
  • senate
    n 1: assembly possessing high legislative powers 2: the upper house of the United States Congress [syn: United States Senate, U.S. Senate, US Senate, Senate]
  • sonnet
    n 1: a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme v 1: praise in a sonnet 2: compose a sonnet
  • subordinate
    adj 1: lower in rank or importance [syn: subordinate, low- level] [ant: dominant] 2: subject or submissive to authority or the control of another; "a subordinate kingdom" [ant: insubordinate] 3: (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; "a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence" [syn: dependent, subordinate] [ant: independent, main(a)] n 1: an assistant subject to the authority or control of another [syn: subordinate, subsidiary, underling, foot soldier] 2: a word that is more specific than a given word [syn: hyponym, subordinate, subordinate word] v 1: rank or order as less important or consider of less value; "Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools" 2: make subordinate, dependent, or subservient; "Our wishes have to be subordinated to that of our ruler" [syn: subordinate, subdue]
  • sultanate
    n 1: country or territory ruled by a sultan
  • tenet
    n 1: a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof [syn: dogma, tenet]
  • terminate
    v 1: bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I" [syn: end, terminate] [ant: begin, commence, get, get down, lead off, set about, set out, start, start out] 2: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" [syn: end, stop, finish, terminate, cease] [ant: begin, start] 3: be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad scene ended the movie" [syn: end, terminate] 4: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant: employ, engage, hire]
  • turbinate
    adj 1: of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in the nasal passages 2: in the shape of a coil [syn: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate] n 1: any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates [syn: turbinate bone, turbinate, turbinal]
  • lunate
    adj 1: resembling the new moon in shape [syn: crescent(a), crescent-shaped, semilunar, lunate]
  • bipinnate
    adj 1: of a leaf shape; having doubly pinnate leaflets (as ferns)
  • tripinnate
    adj 1: (of a leaf shape) thrice pinnate [syn: tripinnate, tripinnated]
  • polycarbonate
  • aydt
  • falconet
  • ait
  • renominate
  • verminate
  • foraminate

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