Words that rhyme with impropriate

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: be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow" [syn: suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate]

v 1: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened" [syn: abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce] [ant: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate] 2: shorten; "Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'"

n 1: a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization 2: a subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization; "network affiliates" v 1: keep company with; hang out with; "He associates with strange people"; "She affiliates with her colleagues" [syn: consort, associate, affiliate, assort] 2: join in an affiliation; "The two colleges affiliated"; "They affiliated with a national group"

v 1: provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches" [syn: relieve, alleviate, palliate, assuage] 2: make easier; "you could facilitate the process by sharing your knowledge" [syn: facilitate, ease, alleviate]

v 1: foreshadow or presage [syn: announce, annunciate, harbinger, foretell, herald]

v 1: recognize with gratitude; be grateful for 2: be fully aware of; realize fully; "Do you appreciate the full meaning of this letter?" [syn: appreciate, take account] 3: hold dear; "I prize these old photographs" [syn: prize, value, treasure, appreciate] 4: gain in value; "The yen appreciated again!" [syn: appreciate, apprize, apprise, revalue] [ant: depreciate, devaluate, devalue, undervalue] 5: increase the value of; "The Germans want to appreciate the Deutsche Mark" [syn: appreciate, apprize, apprise] [ant: depreciate]

adj 1: suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc; "a book not appropriate for children"; "a funeral conducted the appropriate solemnity"; "it seems that an apology is appropriate" [ant: inappropriate] v 1: give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause; "I will earmark this money for your research"; "She sets aside time for meditation every day" [syn: allow, appropriate, earmark, set aside, reserve] 2: take possession of by force, as after an invasion; "the invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants"; "The army seized the town"; "The militia captured the castle" [syn: appropriate, capture, seize, conquer]

adj 1: having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status; "an associate member"; "an associate professor" n 1: a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor; "he had to consult his associate before continuing" 2: a friend who is frequently in the company of another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms" [syn: companion, comrade, fellow, familiar, associate] 3: a person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise; "associates in the law firm bill at a lower rate than do partners" 4: any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another; "first was the lightning and then its thunderous associate" 5: a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies [syn: associate degree, associate] v 1: make a logical or causal connection; "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all" [syn: associate, tie in, relate, link, colligate, link up, connect] [ant: decouple, dissociate] 2: keep company with; hang out with; "He associates with strange people"; "She affiliates with her colleagues" [syn: consort, associate, affiliate, assort] 3: bring or come into association or action; "The churches consociated to fight their dissolution" [syn: consociate, associate]

n 1: a highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium [syn: astatine, At, atomic number 85] 2: 100 at equal 1 kip in Laos

n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment

adj 1: elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" [syn: aureate, florid, flamboyant] 2: having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet" [syn: aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden]

adj 1: provided with gills; "a gilled tadpole" [syn: branchiate, gilled] [ant: abranchial, abranchiate, abranchious, gill-less]

v 1: form into breccia; "brecciated rock" 2: break into breccia; "brecciate rock"

v 1: charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation" [syn: defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch]

adj 1: of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell [syn: ciliary, ciliate, cilial] 2: of or relating to the human eyelash [syn: ciliary, ciliate] 3: having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections [syn: ciliate, ciliated] n 1: a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell [syn: ciliate, ciliated protozoan, ciliophoran]

v 1: give circumstantial evidence for

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] 2: come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up" [syn: reconcile, patch up, make up, conciliate, settle] 3: make (one thing) compatible with (another); "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories" [syn: accommodate, reconcile, conciliate]

v 1: bring or come into association or action; "The churches consociated to fight their dissolution" [syn: consociate, associate]

v 1: become united in substance; "thought and the object consubstantiate" 2: unite in one common substance; "Thought is consubstantiated with the object"

adj 1: deprived of leaves [syn: defoliate, defoliated] v 1: strip the leaves or branches from; "defoliate the trees with pesticides"

adj 1: represented accurately or precisely [syn: delineated, represented, delineate] [ant: undelineated] v 1: show the form or outline of; "The tree was clearly defined by the light"; "The camera could define the smallest object" [syn: define, delineate] 2: determine the essential quality of [syn: specify, define, delineate, delimit, delimitate] 3: trace the shape of [syn: delineate, limn, outline] 4: make a mark or lines on a surface; "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand" [syn: trace, draw, line, describe, delineate] 5: describe in vivid detail

v 1: belittle; "The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts" [syn: deprecate, depreciate, vilipend] 2: lower the value of something; "The Fed depreciated the dollar once again" [ant: appreciate, apprise, apprize] 3: lose in value; "The dollar depreciated again" [syn: depreciate, undervalue, devaluate, devalue] [ant: appreciate, apprise, apprize, revalue]

adj 1: markedly different from an accepted norm; "aberrant behavior"; "deviant ideas" [syn: aberrant, deviant, deviate] n 1: a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior [syn: pervert, deviant, deviate, degenerate] v 1: turn aside; turn away from [syn: deviate, divert] 2: be at variance with; be out of line with [syn: deviate, vary, diverge, depart] [ant: conform] 3: cause to turn away from a previous or expected course; "The river was deviated to prevent flooding"

v 1: mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" [syn: distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart] 2: be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense; "His modesty distinguishes him from his peers" [syn: distinguish, mark, differentiate] 3: calculate a derivative; take the derivative [ant: integrate] 4: become different during development; "cells differentiate" [ant: dedifferentiate] 5: evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment [syn: speciate, differentiate, specialize, specialise] 6: become distinct and acquire a different character

v 1: part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president" [syn: disassociate, dissociate, divorce, disunite, disjoint]

v 1: part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president" [syn: disassociate, dissociate, divorce, disunite, disjoint] 2: regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology" [syn: decouple, dissociate] [ant: associate, colligate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in] 3: to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms; "acids dissociate to give hydrogen ions"

v 1: cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him" [syn: waste, emaciate, macerate] 2: grow weak and thin or waste away physically; "She emaciated during the chemotherapy"

v 1: remove the nucleus from (a cell) 2: remove (a tumor or eye) from an enveloping sac or cover

v 1: speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?" [syn: pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say] 2: express or state clearly [syn: articulate, enunciate, vocalize, vocalise]

v 1: express strong disapproval of; "We condemn the racism in South Africa"; "These ideas were reprobated" [syn: condemn, reprobate, decry, objurgate, excoriate] 2: tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading; "This leash chafes the dog's neck" [syn: chafe, excoriate]

v 1: torment emotionally or mentally [syn: torment, torture, excruciate, rack] 2: subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible" [syn: torture, excruciate, torment]

v 1: spread by opening the leaves of 2: cast off in scales, laminae, or splinters 3: remove the surface, in scales or laminae 4: come off in a very thin piece 5: grow by producing or unfolding leaves; "plants exfoliate"

v 1: add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation" [syn: elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate] [ant: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten]

n 1: a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country; "American expatriates" [syn: exile, expatriate, expat] v 1: expel from a country; "The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions" [syn: expatriate, deport, exile] [ant: repatriate] 2: move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad

v 1: make amends for; "expiate one's sins" [syn: expiate, aby, abye, atone]

v 1: deprive of possessions; "The Communist government expropriated the landowners"

v 1: cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; "our dog sheds every Spring" [syn: shed, molt, exuviate, moult, slough]

adj 1: ornamented with foliage or foils; "foliate tracery"; "a foliated capital" [syn: foliate, foliated] 2: (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves; "`foliate' is combined with the prefix `tri' to form the word `trifoliate'" 3: (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata [syn: foliate, foliated, foliaceous] v 1: hammer into thin flat foils; "foliate metal" 2: decorate with leaves 3: coat or back with metal foil; "foliate glass" 4: number the pages of a book or manuscript [syn: foliate, paginate, page] 5: grow leaves; "the tree foliated in Spring"

v 1: cover with ice or snow or a glacier; "the entire area was glaciated" 2: become frozen and covered with glaciers

v 1: cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss" [syn: humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase]

v 1: form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?" [syn: imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage]

adj 1: not suitable for a particular occasion etc; "noise seems inappropriate at a time of sadness"; "inappropriate shoes for a walk on the beach"; "put inappropriate pressure on them" [ant: appropriate] 2: not in keeping with what is correct or proper; "completely inappropriate behavior" [syn: inappropriate, incompatible, out or keeping(p), unfitting]

n 1: a chronic drinker [syn: drunkard, drunk, rummy, sot, inebriate, wino] v 1: fill with sublime emotion; "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success" [syn: exhilarate, tickle pink, inebriate, thrill, exalt, beatify] 2: make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) [syn: intoxicate, soak, inebriate] 3: become drunk or drink excessively [syn: souse, soak, inebriate, hit it up]

v 1: make furious [syn: infuriate, exasperate, incense]

v 1: gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts

n 1: someone new to a field or activity [syn: novice, beginner, tyro, tiro, initiate] 2: someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field [syn: initiate, learned person, pundit, savant] 3: people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity; "it is very familiar to the initiate" [syn: initiate, enlightened] [ant: uninitiate] v 1: bring into being; "He initiated a new program"; "Start a foundation" [syn: originate, initiate, start] 2: take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of; "This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants" [syn: initiate, pioneer] 3: accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite; "African men are initiated when they reach puberty" [syn: initiate, induct] 4: bring up a topic for discussion [syn: broach, initiate] 5: set in motion, start an event or prepare the way for; "Hitler's attack on Poland led up to World War II" [syn: lead up, initiate]

v 1: represent by an instance; "This word instantiates the usage that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain dialect" 2: find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word); "The linguists could not instantiate this sense of the noun that he claimed existed in a certain dialect"

v 1: give spiritual insight to; in religion [syn: enlighten, irradiate] 2: cast rays of light upon 3: expose to radiation; "irradiate food" [syn: irradiate, ray]

v 1: become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously [syn: luxuriate, wanton] 2: enjoy to excess; "She indulges in ice cream" [syn: indulge, luxuriate] 3: thrive profusely or flourish extensively

adj 1: acting through or dependent on an intervening agency; "the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact" [ant: immediate] 2: being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series; "adolescence is an awkward in-between age"; "in a mediate position"; "the middle point on a line" [syn: in-between, mediate, middle] v 1: act between parties with a view to reconciling differences; "He interceded in the family dispute"; "He mediated a settlement" [syn: intercede, mediate, intermediate, liaise, arbitrate] 2: occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others; "mediate between the old and the new"

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]

adj 1: pertaining to any procedure involving two or more variables

v 1: upset and make nauseated; "The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold on the food sickened the diners" [syn: sicken, nauseate, turn one's stomach] 2: cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us" [syn: disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken, churn up]

v 1: discuss the terms of an arrangement; "They negotiated the sale of the house" [syn: negociate, negotiate, talk terms] 2: succeed in passing through, around, or over; "The hiker negociated the high mountain pass" [syn: negotiate, negociate]

adj 1: having a nucleus or occurring in the nucleus; "nucleated cells" [syn: nucleated, nucleate] v 1: form into a nucleus; "Some cells had nucleated"

v 1: do away with [syn: obviate, rid of, eliminate] [ant: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take] 2: prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike" [syn: debar, forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect, avert, head off, stave off, fend off, avoid, ward off]

v 1: act in an official capacity in a ceremony or religious ritual, such as a wedding; "Who officiated at your wedding?" 2: perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function; "His wife officiated as his private secretary" [syn: officiate, function]

v 1: lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime" [syn: extenuate, palliate, mitigate] 2: provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches" [syn: relieve, alleviate, palliate, assuage]

n 1: one who loves and defends his or her country [syn: patriot, nationalist]

v 1: spread or diffuse through; "An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration"; "music penetrated the entire building"; "His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks" [syn: permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, diffuse, imbue, riddle] 2: pass through; "Water permeates sand easily" [syn: percolate, sink in, permeate, filter] 3: penetrate mutually or be interlocked; "The territories of two married people interpenetrate a lot" [syn: interpenetrate, permeate]

n 1: a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

v 1: increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon); "potentiate the drug"

v 1: have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant; "The Bible tells people to procreate" [syn: reproduce, procreate, multiply]

n 1: a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field" [syn: labor, labour, working class, proletariat]

v 1: make peace with [syn: propitiate, appease]

adj 1: arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center; "radial symmetry"; "a starlike or stellate arrangement of petals"; "many cities show a radial pattern of main highways" [syn: radial, stellate, radiate] 2: having rays or ray-like parts as in the flower heads of daisies v 1: send out rays or waves; "The sun radiates heat" 2: send out real or metaphoric rays; "She radiates happiness" 3: extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center; "spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel"; "This plants radiate spines in all directions" [syn: radiate, ray] 4: have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink; "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna" [syn: glow, beam, radiate, shine] 5: cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays; "The sun is radiating" 6: experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion; "She was beaming with joy"; "Her face radiated with happiness" [syn: glow, beam, radiate, shine] 7: issue or emerge in rays or waves; "Heat radiated from the metal box" 8: spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate; "The plants on this island diversified" [syn: diversify, radiate]

v 1: 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] 2: engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion; "On weekends I play"; "The students all recreate alike" [syn: play, recreate] 3: give encouragement to [syn: cheer, hearten, recreate, embolden] [ant: dishearten, put off] 4: create anew; "she recreated the feeling of the 1920's with her stage setting"

v 1: negociate anew; "The two warring parties will have to renegociate" [syn: renegociate, renegotiate] 2: revise the terms of in order to limit or regain excess profits gained by the contractor; "We renegociated our old mortgage now that the interest rates have come down" [syn: renegociate, renegotiate]

n 1: a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored v 1: send someone back to his homeland against his will, as of refugees 2: admit back into the country [ant: deport, exile, expatriate]

v 1: cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son" [syn: disown, renounce, repudiate] 2: refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid; "The woman repudiated the divorce settlement" 3: refuse to recognize or pay; "repudiate a debt" 4: reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust; "She repudiated the accusations"

v 1: take revenge for a perceived wrong; "He wants to avenge the murder of his brother" [syn: revenge, avenge, retaliate] 2: make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil; "The Empire strikes back"; "The Giants struck back and won the opener"; "The Israeli army retaliated for the Hamas bombing" [syn: retaliate, strike back]

adj 1: of something having a dusty purplish pink color; "the roseate glow of dawn" [syn: rose, roseate, rosaceous]

adj 1: supplied (especially fed) to satisfaction [syn: satiate, satiated] [ant: insatiable, insatiate, unsatiable] v 1: fill to satisfaction; "I am sated" [syn: satiate, sate, replete, fill] 2: overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream" [syn: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out]

v 1: establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant" [syn: confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm] [ant: contradict, negate] 2: represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist" [syn: incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiate] 3: make real or concrete; give reality or substance to; "our ideas must be substantiated into actions" [syn: realize, realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate] 4: solidify, firm, or strengthen; "The president's trip will substantiate good relations with the former enemy country"

v 1: change (the Eucharist bread and wine) into the body and blood of Christ 2: change or alter in form, appearance, or nature; "This experience transformed her completely"; "She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture"; "transubstantiate one element into another" [syn: transform, transmute, transubstantiate]

v 1: corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals" [syn: corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect] 2: make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty" [syn: mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate] 3: take away the legal force of or render ineffective; "invalidate a contract" [syn: invalidate, void, vitiate] [ant: validate]

v 1: operate an airplane; "The pilot flew to Cuba" [syn: fly, aviate, pilot]

adj 1: having widely spreading paired branches; "maples are brachiate" 2: having arms or armlike appendages v 1: swing from one hold to the next; "the monkeys brachiate"

adj 1: having a fringe of slender processes

v 1: paint with red lead or vermilion 2: decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red; "In this beautiful book, all the place names are rubricated" [syn: miniate, rubricate]

adj 1: having one nucleus [ant: multinucleate]

n 1: a variable quantity that is random [syn: random variable, variate, variant, stochastic variable, chance variable]