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Definitions: LEVIGATE |
LEVIGATEAdjective1. Made smooth, as if polished. 2. Made less harsh or burdensome; alleviated. Transitive verb1. Technically, to make smooth by rubbing in a moist condition between hard surfaces, as in grinding pigments. 2. To make smooth in action. 3. To polish. 4. To mix thoroughly, as liquids or semiliquids. 5. To free from grit; to reduce to an impalpable powder or paste. 6. To make smooth in various senses |
Date "LEVIGATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pulverulence | Reduce to powder, grind to powder; pulverize, comminute, granulate, triturate, levigate; scrape, file, abrade, rub down, grind, grate, rasp, pound, bray, bruise; contuse, contund; beat, crush, cranch, craunch, crunch, scranch, crumble, disintegrate; attenuate . |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: LEVIGATE |
| English words defined with "LEVIGATE": Levigated, Levigating. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "LEVIGATE": Laevigate. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "LEVIGATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lustroj (buff, clean, furbish, gloss, gloss over, polish, rub up, varnish, whitewash), bëj pluhur (powder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سحن (beat, bruise, grind, powder, pulverization, triturate, trituration), سحق (bash, batter, beat, beating, bow, break, crack, crumple, crunch, crush, flatten, grind, jam, mow, overwhelm, pound, pounding, powder, pulverization, pulverize, put down, quash, reduce, run over smth., scotch, slam, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, steam roller, suppress, sweep, trample, tread, triturate, trituration), عادة يهودية تجبر أخا المتوفي من الزواج من أرملته, أذاب (dissolve, flux, run, thaw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | счуквам (beat, grind, pound), стривам (mash, pound), смилам (digest, grind, mill), правя на паста. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نرم کردن (Humanize, Jellify, Loosen, Mash, Masticate, Modulate, Plasticize, Pulverize, Soften), نرم (Downy, Effeminate, Fine, Floppy, Limber, Lithe, Mellow, Plastic, Pliant, Silken, Silky, Sleek, Slick, Smooth, Soft, Spongy, Suave, Supple, Tractable, Velvet), ساءیدن (Bruise, Chafe, Fray, Gall, Gnaw, Grate, Grind, Grit, Pulverize, Rub, Scuff), سبک (Buoyant, Gossamer, Levity, Mode, Order, Phraseology, Portable, Soft, Structure, Style, Thin, Volatile), صیقلی (Glossy, Reflective, Shiny, Sleek, Slight, Smooth), صاف وصیقلی کردن , خمیرکردن (Knead, Leaven, Mash, Masticate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | léviger. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | porlaszt (atomize, pulverize, spray, to atomize, to pulverize, to spray, vaporize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | evigatelay levigar, reduzir a pó (pulverize, triturate), pulverizar (atomize, comminute, crush, mealiness, mill, powder, pulverize, spray, talcum, to disc, vapor, vaporize, vapour), navio grande, moer (Basil, crush, flourish, grind, mill, pulverize). (various references) pulveriza (atomize, comminute, grind, jet, powder, pulverize, spray, sprinkle). (various references) растирать в порошок (triturate), отмучивать (elutriate). (various references) pretvoriti u prah (pulverize). (various references) levigar. (various references) finfördela (atomize, grind, pulverize). (various references) บ"ให้ละเอีย". (various references) toz haline getirmek (powder, pulverize), düz yapmak. (various references) полірувати (buff, burnish, clean, furbish, polish), перетворювати на порошок (pulverize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "LEVIGATE": levigated, levigates. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-l-t-v" | |
-1 letter: egalite, elative, vegetal. | |
-2 letters: aiglet, eaglet, elegit, gelate, gelati, glaive, legate, ligate, telega, vagile, velate. | |
-3 letters: agile, aglee, aglet, alive, eagle, elate, elite, evite, gavel, gleet, leave, legit, liege, lieve, telae, telia, valet, vegie, vitae, vital. | |
-4 letters: agee, alee, alit, eave, egal, evil, gait, gale, gate, gave, gelt, geta, gilt, give, glee, glia, ilea. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-i-l-t-v" | |
+1 letter: elevating, levigated, levigates. | |
+2 letters: evangelist, negatively, regulative. | |
+3 letters: evangelists, everlasting, legislative. | |
+4 letters: derogatively, evangelistic, everlastings, festivalgoer, interleaving, intervillage, legislatives, reevaluating, vegetational, vegetatively. | |
+5 letters: agglomerative, aggregatively, cantilevering, everlastingly, festivalgoers, gesticulative, legislatively, televangelism, televangelist. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 45 56 49 47 41 54 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. . ...- .. --. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01000101 01010110 01001001 01000111 01000001 01010100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L E V I G A T E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0045 0056 0049 0047 0041 0054 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4639564341355439 |
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