Words that rhyme with inebriate

• abbreviate 0
  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'"
• affiliate 0
  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"
• alleviate 0
  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]
• annunciate 0
  v 1: foreshadow or presage [syn: announce, annunciate, harbinger, foretell, herald]
• appreciate 0
  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]
• appropriate 0
  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]
• asphyxiate 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: be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow" [syn: suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate]
• associate 0
  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]
• ate 0
  n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
• aureate 0
  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]
• baccalaureate 0
  n 1: a farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies 2: an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies [syn: bachelor's degree, baccalaureate]
• bait 0
  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
• bate 0
  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"
• berate 0
  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]
• branchiate 0
  adj 1: provided with gills; "a gilled tadpole" [syn: branchiate, gilled] [ant: abranchial, abranchiate, abranchious, gill-less]
• brecciate 0
  v 1: form into breccia; "brecciated rock" 2: break into breccia; "brecciate rock"
• calumniate 0
  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]
• chariot 0
  n 1: a light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage 2: a two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome v 1: transport in a chariot 2: ride in a chariot
• ciliate 0
  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]
• circumstantiate 0
  v 1: give circumstantial evidence for
• collate 0
  v 1: compare critically; of texts 2: to assemble in proper sequence; "collate the papers"
• commissariat 0
  n 1: a stock or supply of foods [syn: commissariat, provisions, provender, viands, victuals]
• compatriot 0
  n 1: a person from your own country
• conciliate 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] 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]
• conflate 0
  v 1: mix together different elements; "The colors blend well" [syn: blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge]
• conjugate 0
  adj 1: joined together especially in a pair or pairs [syn: conjugate, conjugated, coupled] 2: (of a pinnate leaflet) having only one pair of leaflets 3: formed by the union of two compounds; "a conjugated protein" [syn: conjugate, conjugated] 4: of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond [syn: conjugate, conjugated] n 1: a mixture of two partially miscible liquids A and B produces two conjugate solutions: one of A in B and another of B in A [syn: conjugate solution, conjugate] v 1: unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds 2: add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc.; "conjugate the verb" 3: undergo conjugation
• consociate 0
  v 1: bring or come into association or action; "The churches consociated to fight their dissolution" [syn: consociate, associate]
• consubstantiate 0
  v 1: become united in substance; "thought and the object consubstantiate" 2: unite in one common substance; "Thought is consubstantiated with the object"
• crate 0
  n 1: a rugged box (usually made of wood); used for shipping 2: the quantity contained in a crate [syn: crate, crateful] v 1: put into a crate; as for protection; "crate the paintings before shipping them to the museum" [ant: uncrate]
• create 0
  v 1: make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" [syn: make, create] 2: bring into existence; "The company was created 25 years ago"; "He created a new movement in painting" 3: pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity; "Don't disturb him--he is creating" 4: invest with a new title, office, or rank; "Create one a peer" 5: create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses" [syn: create, make] 6: create or manufacture a man-made product; "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries" [syn: produce, make, create]
• date 0
  n 1: the specified day of the month; "what is the date today?" [syn: date, day of the month] 2: a participant in a date; "his date never stopped talking" [syn: date, escort] 3: a meeting arranged in advance; "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date" [syn: date, appointment, engagement] 4: a particular but unspecified point in time; "they hoped to get together at an early date" [syn: date, particular date] 5: the present; "they are up to date"; "we haven't heard from them to date" 6: the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred; "he tried to memorizes all the dates for his history class" 7: a particular day specified as the time something happens; "the date of the election is set by law" 8: sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed v 1: go on a date with; "Tonight she is dating a former high school sweetheart" 2: stamp with a date; "The package is dated November 24" [syn: date, date stamp] 3: assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of; "Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings" 4: date regularly; have a steady relationship with; "Did you know that she is seeing an older man?"; "He is dating his former wife again!" [syn: go steady, go out, date, see] 5: provide with a dateline; mark with a date; "She wrote the letter on Monday but she dated it Saturday so as not to reveal that she procrastinated"
• 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]
• deflate 0
  v 1: collapse by releasing contained air or gas; "deflate a balloon" 2: release contained air or gas from; "deflate the air mattress" 3: reduce or lessen the size or importance of; "The bad review of his work deflated his self-confidence" [syn: deflate, puncture] 4: produce deflation in; "The new measures deflated the economy" [ant: inflate] 5: reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices; "deflate the currency" [ant: inflate] 6: become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air; "The balloons deflated" [ant: blow up, inflate]
• defoliate 0
  adj 1: deprived of leaves [syn: defoliate, defoliated] v 1: strip the leaves or branches from; "defoliate the trees with pesticides"
• delineate 0
  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
• demodulate 0
  v 1: extract information from a modulated carrier wave
• depreciate 0
  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]
• desecrate 0
  v 1: violate the sacred character of a place or language; "desecrate a cemetery"; "violate the sanctity of the church"; "profane the name of God" [syn: desecrate, profane, outrage, violate] 2: remove the consecration from a person or an object [syn: desecrate, unhallow, deconsecrate] [ant: bless, consecrate, hallow, sanctify]
• deviate 0
  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"
• dictate 0
  n 1: an authoritative rule 2: a guiding principle; "the dictates of reason" v 1: issue commands or orders for [syn: order, prescribe, dictate] 2: say out loud for the purpose of recording; "He dictated a report to his secretary" 3: rule as a dictator
• differentiate 0
  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
• dilate 0
  v 1: become wider; "His pupils were dilated" [syn: dilate, distend] 2: 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]
• disassociate 0
  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]
• dissociate 0
  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"
• elate 0
  v 1: fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; "Music can uplift your spirits" [syn: elate, lift up, uplift, pick up, intoxicate] [ant: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down]
• emaciate 0
  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"
• enucleate 0
  v 1: remove the nucleus from (a cell) 2: remove (a tumor or eye) from an enveloping sac or cover
• enunciate 0
  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]
• equate 0
  v 1: consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous; "We can compare the Han dynasty to the Romans"; "You cannot equate success in financial matters with greed" [syn: compare, liken, equate] 2: be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics [syn: equate, correspond] 3: make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching; "let's equalize the duties among all employees in this office"; "The company matched the discount policy of its competitors" [syn: equal, match, equalize, equalise, equate]
• estate 0
  n 1: everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities 2: extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island" [syn: estate, land, landed estate, acres, demesne] 3: a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights [syn: estate of the realm, estate, the three estates]
• eukaryote 0
  n 1: an organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria; i.e. an organism with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei in its cells [syn: eukaryote, eucaryote] [ant: procaryote, prokaryote]
• excoriate 0
  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]
• excruciate 0
  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]
• exfoliate 0
  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"
• expatiate 0
  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]
• expatriate 0
  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
• expiate 0
  v 1: make amends for; "expiate one's sins" [syn: expiate, aby, abye, atone]
• expropriate 0
  v 1: deprive of possessions; "The Communist government expropriated the landowners"
• exuviate 0
  v 1: cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; "our dog sheds every Spring" [syn: shed, molt, exuviate, moult, slough]
• fate 0
  n 1: an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future [syn: destiny, fate] 2: the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of destiny" [syn: destiny, fate] 3: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" [syn: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion] v 1: decree or designate beforehand; "She was destined to become a great pianist" [syn: destine, fate, doom, designate]
• fete 0
  n 1: an elaborate party (often outdoors) [syn: fete, feast, fiesta] 2: an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place); "a drama festival" [syn: festival, fete] v 1: have a celebration; "They were feting the patriarch of the family"; "After the exam, the students were celebrating" [syn: celebrate, fete]
• foliate 0
  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"
• freight 0
  n 1: goods carried by a large vehicle [syn: cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignment] 2: transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates [syn: freight, freightage] 3: the charge for transporting something by common carrier; "we pay the freight"; "the freight rate is usually cheaper" [syn: freight, freightage, freight rate] v 1: transport commercially as cargo 2: load with goods for transportation
• gait 0
  n 1: the rate of moving (especially walking or running) [syn: pace, gait] 2: a horse's manner of moving 3: a person's manner of walking
• gate 0
  n 1: a movable barrier in a fence or wall 2: a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs [syn: gate, logic gate] 3: total admission receipts at a sports event 4: passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark v 1: supply with a gate; "The house was gated" 2: control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate 3: restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
• glaciate 0
  v 1: cover with ice or snow or a glacier; "the entire area was glaciated" 2: become frozen and covered with glaciers
• grate 0
  n 1: a frame of iron bars to hold a fire [syn: grate, grating] 2: a harsh rasping sound made by scraping something 3: a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air [syn: grate, grating] v 1: furnish with a grate; "a grated fireplace" 2: gnaw into; make resentful or angry; "The injustice rankled her"; "his resentment festered" [syn: eat into, fret, rankle, grate] 3: reduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface; "grate carrots and onions"; "grate nutmeg" 4: make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate one's teeth in anger" [syn: grate, grind] 5: scratch repeatedly; "The cat scraped at the armchair" [syn: scrape, grate]
• great 0
  adj 1: relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind; "a great juicy steak"; "a great multitude"; "the great auk"; "a great old oak"; "a great ocean liner"; "a great delay" 2: of major significance or importance; "a great work of art"; "Einstein was one of the outstanding figures of the 20th centurey" [syn: great, outstanding] 3: remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; "a great crisis"; "had a great stake in the outcome" 4: very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing" [syn: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad(p), peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing] 5: uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script" [syn: capital, great, majuscule] 6: in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child" [syn: big(p), enceinte, expectant, gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), with child(p)] n 1: a person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field; "he is one of the greats of American music"
• hate 0
  n 1: the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action [syn: hate, hatred] [ant: love] v 1: dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards; "I hate Mexican food"; "She detests politicians" [syn: hate, detest] [ant: love]
• humiliate 0
  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]
• ideate 0
  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]
• inappropriate 0
  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]
• inflate 0
  v 1: exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated" [syn: inflate, blow up, expand, amplify] 2: fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons" [syn: inflate, blow up] [ant: deflate] 3: cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit; "The war inflated the economy" [ant: deflate] 4: increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value; "inflate the currency" [ant: deflate] 5: become inflated; "The sails ballooned" [syn: balloon, inflate, billow]
• infuriate 0
  v 1: make furious [syn: infuriate, exasperate, incense]
• ingratiate 0
  v 1: gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts
• initiate 0
  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]
• innate 0
  adj 1: not established by conditioning or learning; "an unconditioned reflex" [syn: unconditioned, innate, unlearned] [ant: conditioned, learned] 2: being talented through inherited qualities; "a natural leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent" [syn: natural, born(p), innate(p)] 3: present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development [syn: congenital, inborn, innate]
• instantiate 0
  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"
• interrelate 0
  v 1: be in a relationship with; "How are these two observations related?" [syn: relate, interrelate] 2: place into a mutual relationship; "I cannot interrelate these two events"
• interstate 0
  adj 1: involving and relating to the mutual relations of states especially of the United States; "Interstate Highway Commission"; "interstate highways"; "Interstate Commerce Commission"; "interstate commerce" [ant: intrastate] n 1: one of the system of highways linking major cities in the 48 contiguous states of the United States [syn: interstate, interstate highway]
• irradiate 0
  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]
• lariat 0
  n 1: a long noosed rope used to catch animals [syn: lasso, lariat, riata, reata]
• laureate 0
  adj 1: worthy of the greatest honor or distinction; "The nation's pediatrician laureate is preparing to lay down his black bag"- James Traub n 1: someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath
• luxuriate 0
  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
• mediate 0
  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"
• misappropriate 0
  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]
• multivariate 0
  adj 1: pertaining to any procedure involving two or more variables
• nauseate 0
  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]
• negotiate 0
  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]
• nucleate 0
  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"
• obviate 0
  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]
• officiate 0
  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]
• palliate 0
  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]
• patriot 0
  n 1: one who loves and defends his or her country [syn: patriot, nationalist]
• permeate 0
  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]
• poet 0
  n 1: a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
• potentiate 0
  v 1: increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon); "potentiate the drug"
• procreate 0
  v 1: have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant; "The Bible tells people to procreate" [syn: reproduce, procreate, multiply]
• proletariat 0
  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]
• propitiate 0
  v 1: make peace with [syn: propitiate, appease]

See also inebriate definition and inebriate synonyms