Words that rhyme with recapitulate
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ambulate
v 1: walk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking -
articulate
adj 1: expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language; "articulate speech"; "an articulate orator"; "articulate beings" [ant: inarticulate, unarticulate] 2: consisting of segments held together by joints [syn: articulated, articulate] [ant: unarticulated] v 1: provide with a joint; "the carpenter jointed two pieces of wood" [syn: joint, articulate] 2: put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees" [syn: give voice, formulate, word, phrase, articulate] 3: 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] 4: unite by forming a joint or joints; "the ankle bone articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle bones" 5: express or state clearly [syn: articulate, enunciate, vocalize, vocalise] -
ate
n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment -
bait
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
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
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] -
calculate
v 1: make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure] 2: judge to be probable [syn: calculate, estimate, reckon, count on, figure, forecast] 3: keep an account of [syn: account, calculate] 4: predict in advance [syn: forecast, calculate] 5: specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public [syn: calculate, aim, direct] 6: have faith or confidence in; "you can count on me to help you any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet on that!"; "Depend on your family in times of crisis" [syn: count, bet, depend, look, calculate, reckon] -
capitulate
v 1: surrender under agreed conditions -
circulate
v 1: become widely known and passed on; "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office" [syn: go around, spread, circulate] 2: 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] 3: cause be distributed; "This letter is being circulated among the faculty" [syn: circulate, pass around, pass on, distribute] 4: move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point; "Blood circulates in my veins"; "The air here does not circulate" 5: move in circles [syn: circle, circulate] 6: cause to move in a circuit or system; "The fan circulates the air in the room" 7: move around freely; "She circulates among royalty" 8: cause to move around; "circulate a rumor" [syn: mobilize, mobilise, circulate] -
collate
v 1: compare critically; of texts 2: to assemble in proper sequence; "collate the papers" -
confabulate
v 1: unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory 2: talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" [syn: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit] 3: have a conference in order to talk something over; "We conferred about a plan of action" [syn: confer, confabulate, confab, consult] -
congratulate
v 1: say something to someone that expresses praise; "He complimented her on her last physics paper" [syn: compliment, congratulate] 2: express congratulations [syn: congratulate, felicitate] 3: be proud of; "He prides himself on making it into law school" [syn: pride, plume, congratulate] 4: pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement [syn: preen, congratulate] -
denticulate
adj 1: having a very finely toothed margin -
depopulate
v 1: reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside" [syn: depopulate, desolate] -
discombobulate
v 1: cause to be confused emotionally [syn: bewilder, bemuse, discombobulate, throw] 2: be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher" [syn: confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate] -
expostulate
v 1: reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion -
flocculate
v 1: form into an aggregated lumpy or fluffy mass; "the protoplasms flocculated" 2: cause to become a fluffy or lumpy aggregate; "The chemist flocculated the suspended material" -
gesticulate
v 1: show, express or direct through movement; "He gestured his desire to leave" [syn: gesticulate, gesture, motion] -
manipulate
v 1: influence or control shrewdly or deviously; "He manipulated public opinion in his favor" [syn: manipulate, pull strings, pull wires] 2: hold something in one's hands and move it 3: tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" [syn: fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent] 4: manipulate in a fraudulent manner; "rig prices" [syn: rig, manipulate] 5: control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage; "She manipulates her boss"; "She is a very controlling mother and doesn't let her children grow up"; "The teacher knew how to keep the class in line"; "she keeps in line" [syn: manipulate, keep in line, control] 6: treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed -
osculate
v 1: be intermediate between two taxonomic groups; "These species osculate" 2: have at least three points in common with; "one curve osculates the other"; "these two surfaces osculate" 3: touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.; "The newly married couple kissed"; "She kissed her grandfather on the forehead when she entered the room" [syn: snog, kiss, buss, osculate] -
overpopulate
v 1: cause to have too great a population; "Some towns in New Jersey are becoming overpopulated" -
particulate
adj 1: composed of distinct particles [ant: nonparticulate] n 1: a small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant) [syn: particulate, particulate matter] -
peculate
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] -
perambulate
v 1: make an official inspection on foot of (the bounds of a property); "Selectmen are required by law to perambulate the bounds every five years" 2: walk with no particular goal; "we were walking around in the garden"; "after breakfast, she walked about in the park" [syn: perambulate, walk about, walk around] -
postulate
n 1: (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning [syn: postulate, posit] v 1: maintain or assert; "He contended that Communism had no future" [syn: contend, postulate] 2: take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom; "He posited three basic laws of nature" [syn: postulate, posit] 3: require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent" [syn: necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand] [ant: eliminate, obviate, rid of] -
reticulate
adj 1: resembling or forming a network; "the reticulate veins of a leaf"; "a reticulated highway system" [syn: reticulate, reticular] [ant: nonreticulate] v 1: form a net or a network 2: distribute by a network, as of water or electricity 3: divide so as to form a network -
speculate
v 1: to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps" [syn: speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose] 2: talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion; "We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal" 3: 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] 4: invest at a risk; "I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating" [syn: speculate, job] -
tabulate
v 1: arrange or enter in tabular form [syn: table, tabularize, tabularise, tabulate] 2: shape or cut with a flat surface -
vermiculate
adj 1: infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms [syn: vermiculate, worm-eaten, wormy] 2: decorated with wormlike tracery or markings; "vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework" [syn: vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated] v 1: decorate with wavy or winding lines -
pustulate
adj 1: (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin [syn: acned, pimpled, pimply, pustulate] -
sacculate
adj 1: formed with or having saclike expansions; "the alimentary tract is partially sacculated" [syn: sacculated, sacculate] -
mandibulate
adj 1: having mandibles -
infibulate
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aydt
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ait
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repopulate
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scrobiculate
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subulate
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