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-ate1 definition

-ate (āt; for 2 & 3 it, āt)

    1. to become evaporate, maturate
    2. to cause to become invalidate, rejuvenate
    3. to form or produce ulcerate
    4. to provide or treat with vaccinate
    5. to put in the form of, or form by means of delineate, triangulate
    6. to arrange for orchestrate
    7. to combine, infuse, or treat with oxygenate
    1. of or characteristic of collegiate, roseate
    2. having or filled with foliolate, passionate
    3. Biol. having or characterized by caudate
  3. forming adjectives roughly equivalent to corresponding past participles ending in -ed animate (animated), determinate (determined)
-ate2 definition

-ate (āt, it)

  1. an office, function, agent, official, or group of officials episcopate, potentate, directorate
  2. the land, territory, or dominion of (a person or office) priorate, sultanate
  3. a person or thing that is the object of (an action) legate, mandate
  4. Chem.
    1. salt made from any of certain acids with names ending in -ic: its metal or nonmetal is in its highest oxidation state ammonium nitrate
    2. a result of some process distillate

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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