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Acidulate

Definition: Acidulate

Acidulate

Verb

1. Make sour or more sour.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Acidulate \A*cid"u*late\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Acidulated; present participle verb or noun Acidulating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Acidulate

Synonyms: acetify (v), acidify (v), sour (v). (additional references)
Antonym: sweeten (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Acidulate

English words defined with "acidulate": Acidulating. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Acidulate

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

acidulate

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Acidulate

Language Translations for "acidulate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏حمض قليلا, ‏إستحمض. (various references)

   

Danish

  

surgøre (acidify). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

aanzuren (acidification, acidify, acidifying, to sour). (various references)

   

French

  

aciduler (acidify). (various references)

   

German

  

Ansaeuern (acidify). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

οξυνίζω, οξίνιση (acidification, acidify, souring). (various references)

   

Italian

  

acidulare (acidify). (various references)

   

Manx

  

jannoo sharroo (acidify, embitter), gortaghey (hurt, hurting, maim, pain). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acidulateay

   

Portuguese

  

acidular (acidify, to sour). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

acidula (acidify, sour). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

подкислять (acidify). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

acidular (acidify). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

підкислювати (acidify). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Acidulate

Derivations

Words beginning with "acidulate": acidulated, acidulates. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Acidulate"

Words rhyming with "acidulate" (pronounced 'A*cid"u*late'): Absquatulate, Aculeolate, Adulate, Alveolate, Ambulate, Amylate, Apostolate, Appendiculate, Ariled, Arillate, Aristulate, Arllated, Assibilate, Assimulate, Astipulate, Avolate, Barbellate, Barbellulate, Belate, Biarticulate, Biauriculate, Biflabellate, Biflagellate, Bifoliolate, Bimaculate, Binoculate, Binoxalate, Binucleolate, Biocellate, Bipupillate, Bombilate, Boncilate, Bookplate, Bracteolate, Breastplate, Bullate, Bursiculate, Calceolate, Campanulate, Cancellate, Cantillate, Capitellate, Capreolate, Caprylate, Catenulate, Cephalate, Chelate, Chocolate, Cholate, Circumambulate, Circumundulate, Clavellate, Confabulate, Conflate, Conglobulate, Consolate, Consulate, Copperplate, Corniculate, Costellate, Cumulate, Cupulate, Deambulate, Dearticulate, Debellate, Decollate, deflate, Deoperculate, Deoppilate, Deosculate, Depilate, Depucelate, Disarticulate, Disassimilate, Disoppilate, Dissimilate, Drawplate, Ebracteolate, Echinulate, Efflate, Electroplate, Emaculate, Enubilate, Eventilate, Exannulate, Exantlate, Exarillate, Exarticulate, Exoculate, Exosculate, Exscutellate, Exstipulate, Exsufflate, Extimulate, Exungulate, Falculate, Famulate, Faveolate, fistulate, Flabellate, Focillate, Fo'liolate, footplate, formulate, Fossulate, Foveolate, Funambulate, Funiculate, Galericu-late, Gallate, Glycocholate, Hamulate, Haustellate, immaculate, immolate, Implate, inarticulate, Incapsulate, Insimulate, Insolate, Instipulate, Insufflate, insulate, intercalate, Interjaculate, Interosculate, interpellate, interpolate, Involucellate, Irregulate, Irrelate, isolate, Jaculate, Jugulate, Laciniolate, legislate, Lenticellate, Lineolate, lingulate, Locellate, Loculate, Malate, Masculate, Mellate, Mesoxalate, miscalculate, Misregulate, Misrelate, mistranslate, Monticulate, Moroxylate, Mucronulate, Multarticulate, Multigranulate, Multungulate, Muriculate, Naphthalate, Neckplate, Nidulate, Nubilate, Oblanceolate, Obnubilate, Ocellate, Omoplate, Opinlate, Oppilate, Oscillate, Ovate-lanceolate, Ovate-subulate, Overlate, Ovulate, Oxalate, Oxanilate, Papillulate, Peculate, Pedicellate, Pediculate, Pendulate, Penicillate, Peninsulate, Perflate, Petiolulate, Phenolate, Pinnulate, Pistillate, Plano-subulate, Plurifoliolate, Preambulate, Precalculate, Proconsulate, Propiolate, Pullulate, Pyrogallate, Pyromalate, Reassimilate, Reconsolate, Refocillate, Regelate, regulate, Repullulate, Retinulate, retranslate, Revelate, Rostellate, Rosulate, Scepterellate, scintillate, Semiverticillate, Septulate, sibilate, Solidungulate, somnambulate, Spacelate, spatulate, Spherulate, Spinii-spirulate, Spirulate, Squamellate, Squamulate, Stellulate, stimulate, Stipellate, strangulate, Straticulate, stridulate, Sublate, Subpedunculate, Subturriculate, Sufflate, Suggillate, Surculate, Tabulate, Tantalate, Taurocholate, Terephthalate, Terneplate, Testiculate, Thallate, titillate, trabeculate, Transcolate, triangulate, Triarticulate, trifoliolate, Tubulate, ululate, Uniflagellate, Unifollilate, uniovulate, Unmasculate, Urcelate, Ustulate, Utriculate, vacillate, Vamplate, Vanillate, Vehiculate, Velate, Ventilate, Verriculate, Violate, Virgulate, Xylate. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Acidulate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-l-t-u"

-2 letters: adulate, alcaide, caudate, citadel, deltaic, dialect, ductile, edictal.

-3 letters: acedia, acetal, actual, acuate, aculei, aecial, alated, alcade, atelic, audial, audile, caudal, caudle, cedula, dautie, delict, deltic, detail, dilate, dilute, ductal, dulcet, luetic, tailed, talced, tuladi.

-4 letters: aceta, acted, acute, adieu, adult, aecia, ailed, alate, alcid, audit, aulic, cadet, cauld, cited, clade, cleat, clued, culet, culti, cutie, dealt, decal, delta, dicta, ducal, ducat, dulia, eclat, edict, educt, ideal, ileac, laced, lated, lucid, ludic, lutea, luted, telia, telic, tical, tidal, tilde, tiled, utile.

-5 letters: aced, acid, acta, adit, aide, alae, alec, alit, auld, cade, cadi, caid, cate, caul, cedi, ceil, celt, cite, clad, clit, clue, cued, cult, cute, dace, dale, data, date, daut, deal, deil, deli, delt, dial, dice, diel, diet, dita, dite, dual, duce, duci, duct, duel, duet, duit, edit, etic, etui, iced, idea, idle, ilea, lace, lade, laic, laid, late, lati, laud, lead, leud, lice, lied, lieu, lite, litu, luce, lude, lute, tace, tael, tail, tala, talc, tale, tali, teal, tela, tide, tied, tile, tule.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-l-t-u"
 

+1 letter: acidulated, acidulates, actualized.

 

+2 letters: articulated, calumniated, capitulated, educational.

 

+3 letters: clairaudient, fasciculated, hallucinated, matriculated, unacclimated, uncalibrated.

 

+4 letters: coeducational, disarticulate, educationally, extrajudicial, miscalculated, quadruplicate, rearticulated, recapitulated, ultradistance, unarticulated, uncapitalized, undialectical.

 

+5 letters: circumvallated, clairaudiently, disarticulated, disarticulates, educationalist, misarticulated, multidialectal, noneducational, particularised, particularized, quadruplicated, quadruplicates, ultradistances, unacclimatized.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Acidulate


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 63 69 64 75 6C 61 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -.-.    ..    -..    ..-    .-..    .-    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100011 01101001 01100100 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#99 &#105 &#100 &#117 &#108 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0063 0069 0064 0075 006C 0061 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

356975708778678671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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