Words that rhyme with relegate

• abnegate 0
  v 1: deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure; "She denied herself wine and spirits" [syn: deny, abnegate] 2: surrender (power or a position); "The King abnegated his power to the ministers" 3: deny or renounce; "They abnegated their gods"
• abrogate 0
  v 1: revoke formally
• agate 0
  n 1: an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles
• aggregate 0
  adj 1: formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole; "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness" [syn: aggregate, aggregated, aggregative, mass] 2: composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets; "raspberries are aggregate fruits" n 1: the whole amount [syn: sum, total, totality, aggregate] 2: material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster 3: a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together [syn: aggregate, congeries, conglomeration] v 1: amount in the aggregate to 2: gather in a mass, sum, or whole [syn: aggregate, combine]
• arrogate 0
  v 1: demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to; "He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter"; "Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident" [syn: claim, lay claim, arrogate] [ant: forego, forfeit, forgo, give up, throw overboard, waive] 2: make undue claims to having [syn: arrogate, assign] 3: seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession; "He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town"; "he usurped my rights"; "She seized control of the throne after her husband died" [syn: assume, usurp, seize, take over, arrogate]
• at 0
  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
• ate 0
  n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
• bigot 0
  n 1: a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own
• castigate 0
  v 1: censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks" [syn: chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct] 2: inflict severe punishment on
• circumnavigate 0
  v 1: travel around, either by plane or ship; "We compassed the earth" [syn: circumnavigate, compass]
• colligate 0
  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: consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle [syn: subsume, colligate]
• congregate 0
  v 1: come together, usually for a purpose; "The crowds congregated in front of the Vatican on Christmas Eve"
• 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
• corrugate 0
  v 1: fold into ridges; "corrugate iron"
• delegate 0
  n 1: a person appointed or elected to represent others v 1: transfer power to someone [syn: delegate, depute] 2: give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) [syn: delegate, designate, depute, assign]
• derogate 0
  v 1: cause to seem less serious; play down; "Don't belittle his influence" [syn: minimize, belittle, denigrate, derogate]
• desegregate 0
  v 1: open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups; "This school is completely desegregated" [syn: desegregate, integrate, mix] [ant: segregate]
• divagate 0
  v 1: lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking; "She always digresses when telling a story"; "her mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a lecture" [syn: digress, stray, divagate, wander]
• ergot 0
  n 1: a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus 2: a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid [syn: ergot, Claviceps purpurea]
• expurgate 0
  v 1: edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel" [syn: bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten]
• frigate 0
  n 1: a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries 2: a United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser
• fumigate 0
  v 1: treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests [syn: fumigate, fume]
• fustigate 0
  v 1: strike with a cudgel [syn: cudgel, fustigate]
• ingot 0
  n 1: metal that is cast in the shape of a block for convenient handling [syn: ingot, metal bar, block of metal]
• instigate 0
  v 1: provoke or stir up; "incite a riot"; "set off great unrest among the people" [syn: incite, instigate, set off, stir up] 2: serve as the inciting cause of; "She prompted me to call my relatives" [syn: prompt, inspire, instigate]
• interrogate 0
  v 1: transmit (a signal) for setting off an appropriate response, as in telecommunication 2: pose a series of questions to; "The suspect was questioned by the police"; "We questioned the survivor about the details of the explosion" [syn: interrogate, question]
• investigate 0
  v 1: investigate scientifically; "Let's investigate the syntax of Chinese" [syn: investigate, look into] 2: conduct an inquiry or investigation of; "The district attorney's office investigated reports of possible irregularities"; "inquire into the disappearance of the rich old lady" [syn: investigate, inquire, enquire]
• irrigate 0
  v 1: supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams; "Water the fields" [syn: water, irrigate] 2: supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting; "irrigate the wound"
• legate 0
  n 1: a member of a legation [syn: legate, official emissary]
• litigate 0
  v 1: engage in legal proceedings 2: institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination" [syn: action, sue, litigate, process]
• maggot 0
  n 1: the larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter
• mitigate 0
  v 1: lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime" [syn: extenuate, palliate, mitigate] 2: make less severe or harsh; "mitigating circumstances"
• navigate 0
  v 1: travel on water propelled by wind or by other means; "The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow" [syn: voyage, sail, navigate] 2: act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance; "Is anyone volunteering to navigate during the trip?"; "Who was navigating the ship during the accident?" [syn: navigate, pilot] 3: direct carefully and safely; "He navigated his way to the altar"
• negate 0
  v 1: be in contradiction with [syn: contradict, belie, negate] 2: deny the truth of [syn: contradict, negate, contravene] 3: prove negative; show to be false [syn: negate, contradict] [ant: affirm, confirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain] 4: make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of; "Her optimism neutralizes his gloom"; "This action will negate the effect of my efforts" [syn: neutralize, neutralise, nullify, negate]
• nougat 0
  n 1: nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste
• nugget 0
  n 1: a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth
• objurgate 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: censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks" [syn: chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct]
• obligate 0
  adj 1: restricted to a particular condition of life; "an obligate anaerobe can survive only in the absence of oxygen" [ant: facultative] v 1: force somebody to do something; "We compel all students to fill out this form" [syn: compel, oblige, obligate] 2: commit in order to fulfill an obligation; "obligate money" 3: bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted; "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise" [syn: oblige, bind, hold, obligate]
• profligate 0
  adj 1: recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures" [syn: extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift] 2: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast] n 1: a dissolute man in fashionable society [syn: rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue] 2: a recklessly extravagant consumer [syn: prodigal, profligate, squanderer]
• propagate 0
  v 1: transmit from one generation to the next; "propagate these characteristics" 2: travel through the air; "sound and light propagate in this medium" 3: transmit; "propagate sound or light through air" 4: become distributed or widespread; "the infection spread"; "Optimism spread among the population" [syn: spread, propagate] 5: transmit or cause to broaden or spread; "This great civilization was propagated throughout the land" 6: 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] 7: cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering 8: multiply sexually or asexually
• segregate 0
  n 1: someone who is or has been segregated v 1: separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation; "This neighborhood is segregated"; "We don't segregate in this county" [ant: desegregate, integrate, mix] 2: divide from the main body or mass and collect; "Many towns segregated into new counties"; "Experiments show clearly that genes segregate" 3: separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others; "the sun segregates the carbon"; "large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims"
• subjugate 0
  v 1: put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land" [syn: repress, quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate, reduce] 2: make subservient; force to submit or subdue [syn: subjugate, subject]
• subrogate 0
  v 1: substitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insured
• surrogate 0
  adj 1: providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties; "foster parent"; "foster child"; "foster home"; "surrogate father" [syn: foster, surrogate] n 1: someone who takes the place of another person [syn: surrogate, alternate, replacement] 2: a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others [syn: deputy, surrogate]
• variegate 0
  v 1: change the appearance of, especially by marking with different colors 2: make something more diverse and varied; "Vary the menu" [syn: vary, variegate, motley]
• vulgate 0
  n 1: the Latin edition of the Bible translated from Hebrew and Greek mainly by St. Jerome at the end of the 4th century; as revised in 1592 it was adopted as the official text for the Roman Catholic Church
• ligate 0
  v 1: join letters in a ligature when writing 2: bind chemically; "The enzyme ligated" 3: bind with a bandage or ligature; "ligate the artery"
• watergate 0
  n 1: a political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice; led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974 [syn: Watergate, Watergate scandal]
• yogurt 0
  n 1: a custard-like food made from curdled milk [syn: yogurt, yoghurt, yoghourt]
• margate 0
  n 1: a grunt with a red mouth that is found from Florida to Brazil [syn: margate, Haemulon album]
• newgate 0
  n 1: a former prison in London notorious for its unsanitary conditions and burnt down in riots in 1780; a new prison was built on the same spot but was torn down in 1902
• disaggregate 0
• homologate 0
• aydt 0
• ait 0
• levigate 0
• runagate 0

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