Words that rhyme with illuminate

• abominate 0
  v 1: find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats" [syn: abhor, loathe, abominate, execrate]
• ate 0
  n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
• contaminate 0
  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]
• culminate 0
  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 0
  v 1: rid of contamination; "The soil around the housing development had to be decontaminated by the city" [ant: contaminate]
• denominate 0
  v 1: assign a name or title to [syn: designate, denominate]
• discriminate 0
  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 0
  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 0
  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]
• eliminate 0
  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
• exterminate 0
  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 0
  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 0
  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 0
  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"
• ingeminate 0
  v 1: to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request" [syn: repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell]
• inseminate 0
  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 0
  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 0
  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]
• predominate 0
  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]
• recriminate 0
  v 1: return an accusation against someone or engage in mutual accusations; charge in return
• ruminate 0
  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]
• terminate 0
  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]
• aluminate 0
  n 1: a compound of alumina and a metallic oxide
• aydt 0
• ait 0
• renominate 0
• minit 0
• verminate 0
• foraminate 0

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