Words that rhyme with foraminate

v 1: find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats" [syn: abhor, loathe, abominate, execrate]

n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment

v 1: look forward to the probable occurrence of; "We were expecting a visit from our relatives"; "She is looking to a promotion"; "he is waiting to be drafted" [syn: expect, look, await, wait]

v 1: make effective from an earlier date; "The increase in tax was backdated to January"

n 1: anything that serves as an enticement [syn: bait, come- on, hook, lure, sweetener] 2: something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed [syn: bait, decoy, lure] v 1: harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride] 2: lure, entice, or entrap with bait 3: attack with dogs or set dogs upon

v 1: moderate or restrain; lessen the force of; "He bated his breath when talking about this affair"; "capable of bating his enthusiasm" 2: flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons 3: soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; "bate hides and skins"

v 1: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast]

v 1: compare critically; of texts 2: to assemble in proper sequence; "collate the papers"

v 1: mix together different elements; "The colors blend well" [syn: blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge]

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]

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"

v 1: rid of contamination; "The soil around the housing development had to be decontaminated by the city" [ant: contaminate]

v 1: assign a name or title to [syn: designate, denominate]

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"

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]

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]

v 1: terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts" [syn: extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with] 2: do away with [syn: obviate, rid of, eliminate] [ant: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take] 3: kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" [syn: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off] 4: dismiss from consideration or a contest; "John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"; "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration" [syn: rule out, eliminate, winnow out, reject] 5: eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone" [syn: excrete, egest, eliminate, pass] 6: remove from a contest or race; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race" 7: remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations

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]

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

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"

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"

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)

v 1: to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request" [syn: repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell]

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]

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

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]

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]

v 1: return an accusation against someone or engage in mutual accusations; charge in return

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]

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]