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22,815 words match “ATE”

ABLAQUEATE v.
To lay bare, as the roots of a tree. [Obs.] Bailey.
ABLEGATE v. 2 definitions
To send abroad. [Obs.] Bailey.
ABLIGATE v.
To tie up so as to hinder from. [Obs.]
ABNEGATE v.
To deny and reject; to abjure. Sir E. Sandys. Farrar.
ABNODATE v.
To clear (tress) from knots. [R.] Blount.
ABOMINATE v.
To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.
ABRANCHIATE a.
Without gills.
ABROGATE a. 3 definitions
Abrogated; abolished. [Obs.] Latimer.
ABSINTHATE n.
A combination of absinthic acid with a base or positive radical.
ABSINTHIATE v.
To impregnate with wormwood.
ABSINTHIATED a.
Impregnated with wormwood; as, absinthiated wine.
ABSQUATULATE v.
To take one's self off; to decamp. [A jocular word. U. S.]
ACATER n.
See Caterer. [Obs.]
ACATES n.
See Cates. [Obs.]
ACAUDATE a.
Tailless.
ACCELERATE v. 3 definitions
To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.
ACCENTUATE v. 3 definitions
ominent; to emphasize. In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated. London Times.
ACCLIMATE v.
To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize. J. H. Newman.
ACCLIMATEMENT n.
Acclimation. [R.]
ACCOMMODATE v. 6 definitions
To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. "They accomodate their counsels to his inclination." Addison.
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