| ACCLIMATE | • acclimate v. (Transitive, chiefly US) To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize. • acclimate v. (Transitive, chiefly US) To adjust to a new environment; not necessarily a wild, natural, earthy one. • acclimate v. (Intransitive, chiefly US) To become accustomed to a new climate or environment. |
| ANIMATELY | • animately adv. In an animate manner. • ANIMATE adv. living, having animal life. |
| ANIMATERS | • animaters n. Plural of animater. • ANIMATER n. one who, or that which, animates, also ANIMATOR. |
| ANIMATEUR | • animateur n. One who promotes particular activity, especially one of a cultural or artistic nature. • ANIMATEUR n. a person who enlivens or encourages something, especially a promoter of artistic enterprises. |
| COLLIMATE | • collimate v. To focus into a narrow beam or column; to adjust a focusing device so that it produces a narrow beam. • COLLIMATE v. to make parallel; to adjust accurately the line of sight of (an optical instrument, such as a surveying telescope). |
| DECIMATED | • decimated v. Simple past tense and past participle of decimate. • DECIMATE v. to kill every tenth person; to destroy a large proportion of a group. |
| DECIMATES | • decimates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decimate. • decimates n. Plural of decimate. • DECIMATE v. to kill every tenth person; to destroy a large proportion of a group. |
| ESTIMATED | • estimated v. Simple past tense and past participle of estimate. • ESTIMATE v. to calculate. |
| ESTIMATES | • estimates n. Plural of estimate. • ESTIMATE v. to calculate. |
| EXANIMATE | • exanimate adj. Lifeless, not or no longer living, dead. • exanimate adj. Spiritless, dispirited, disheartened, not lively. • exanimate v. (Obsolete, transitive) To deprive of animation or of life. |
| INANIMATE | • inanimate adj. Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object. • inanimate adj. Not being, and never having been alive, especially not like humans and animals. • inanimate adj. (Grammar) Not animate. |
| INTIMATED | • intimated v. Simple past tense and past participle of intimate. • INTIMATE v. to make known indirectly. |
| INTIMATER | • intimater n. Alternative form of intimator. • INTIMATER n. one who intimates. |
| INTIMATES | • intimates n. Plural of intimate. • intimates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intimate. • INTIMATE v. to make known indirectly. |
| OPTIMATES | • optimates n. Plural of optimate. • OPTIMATE n. a member of the aristocracy. |
| PROXIMATE | • proximate adj. Close or closest; adjacent. • proximate adj. (Law) Immediately preceding or following in a chain of causation. • proximate adj. About to take place; impending. |
| REANIMATE | • reanimate adj. Being animate again. • reanimate v. To animate again. • REANIMATE v. to bring back to life. |
| SUBLIMATE | • sublimate v. (Transitive, intransitive, physics) To change state from a solid to a gas without passing through the liquid state. • sublimate v. (Transitive, archaic) To purify or refine a substance through such a change of state. • sublimate v. (Transitive, psychoanalysis) To modify the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct in a… |
| ULTIMATED | • ultimated v. Simple past tense and past participle of ultimate. • ULTIMATE v. to bring or come to an end; to finish. |
| ULTIMATES | • ultimates n. Plural of ultimate. • ULTIMATE v. to bring or come to an end; to finish. |