Salivate

Definitions: Salivate

Salivate

Verb

1. Produce saliva; "We salivated when he described the great meal".

2. Be envious, desire, or extremely happy about something; "She was salivating over the raise she anticipated".

Date "salivate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references)

Note: Salivate \Sal"i*vate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Salivated; present participle verb or noun Salivating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Salivate

Synonym: drool (v). (additional references)

Crosswords: Salivate

English words defined with "salivate": Salivated, Salivating. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You're their last hope for survival, yet they salivate for the taste of your blood. (First Wave; writing credit: Tunde Babalola)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Salivate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 90.48% of the time. "Salivate" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	90.48%	19	80,337
Lexical Verb (base form)	9.52%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	21	N/A

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Language		Translations for "salivate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		nxjerr pështymë, jargëzoj (drool). (various references)

Arabic		‏حدث مقدارا مفرطا من اللعاب, ‏سال لعابه (dribble, drivel, drool, slaver, slime, slobber), ‏سال ريقه, ‏أفرز لعابا. (various references)

Bulgarian		отделям слюнка, предизвиквам отделяне на слюнка. (various references)

Czech		slintat (dribble, drivel, drool, slaver, slobber), slinit. (various references)

Dutch		zeveren, speeksel afscheiden. (various references)

Esperanto		salivi. (various references)

Faeroese		spýta (spit), sleva. (various references)

Farsi		خدواوردن , بزاق ترشح کردن , بزاق ایجادکردن . (various references)

French		baver. (various references)

German		speicheln (slaver). (various references)

Greek		σαλιάζω (slobber). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"פריש ריר (slaver). (various references)

Hungarian		nyálaz, nyáladzik (drool, slaver, to dribble, to drool, to salivate, to slaver, to slobber, to slubber). (various references)

Italian		salivare. (various references)

Manx		shellaghey (salivation), ceau shelley (expectorate, spit). (various references)

Papiamen		baba (saliva). (various references)

Pig Latin		alivatesay.(various references)

Portuguese		salivar (gobbet, salivary, spit, water). (various references)

Romanian		saliva. (various references)

Russian		выделять слюну. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		salivacija (salivation), lučiti pljuvačku. (various references)

Spanish		salivar (spit), hacer salivar. (various references)

Swedish		dregla (dribble, drivel, drool, slaver, slobber), avsöndra saliv. (various references)

Turkish		salya akıtmak, tükürük salgılamak. (various references)

Turkmen		tьяkьliklemek. (various references)

Ukranian		викликати слинотечу, виділяти слину. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "salivate": salivated, salivates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Salivate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alivate, Salabat, Salavat, salicvate, Salvat, Salvati, selibate, selivate, Slavata. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "salivate" (pronounced sa"luvā't)
5	-l u v ā' t	elevate.
4	-u v ā' t	activate, aggravate, cultivate, excavate, innovate, motivate, reactivate, renovate.
3	-v ā' t	captivate, deactivate, inactivate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: aestival.
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-l-s-t-v"
	-1 letter: aviates, estival.
	-2 letters: alates, avails, aviate, livest, saliva, saltie, salvia, savate, silvae, stelai, valets, valise, vestal, vilest, vitals.
	-3 letters: aisle, alate, alias, alist, alive, atlas, avail, avast, evils, islet, istle, lavas, laves, least, litas, lives, salve, selva, setal, silva, slate, slave, stale, stave, steal, stela, stile, taels, tails, talas, tales, teals, telia, tesla, tiles, vails, vales, valet, valse, vasal, veals, veils, vesta, vials, vista, vitae, vital.
	-4 letters: aals, ails, aits, alae, alas, ales, alit, alts, asea, ates, aves, east, eats, etas, evil, ilea, isle, lase, last, late, lati, lats, lava, lave, lavs, leas, leis, lest, lets, leva, lies, list, lite, lits, live, sail, sale, salt, sate, sati, save, seal, seat, seta, sial, silt, site, slat, slit, tael, tail, tala, tale, tali, tavs, teal, teas, tela, tels, ties, tile, tils, vail, vale, vasa, vase, vast, vats, veal, veil, vela, vest, vets, vial, vies, vile, visa, vise, vita.
	-5 letters: aal, aas, ail, ais, ait, ala, ale, als, alt, ate, ava, ave, eat, els, eta, its, las, lat, lav, lea, lei, let, lev, lie, lis, lit, sae, sal, sat, sea, sei, sel, set, sit, tae, tas, tav, tea, tel, tie, til, tis, vas, vat, vet, via, vie, vis.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-l-s-t-v"
	+1 letter: ablatives, aventails, laxatives, salivated, salivates, shavetail, validates, varietals.
	+2 letters: alleviates, assaultive, calmatives, lavatories, leviathans, shavetails, vacillates.
	+3 letters: alleviators, antislavery, causatively, evaluations, invalidates, misevaluate, palliatives, revalidates, translative, valiantness, vulcanisate.
	+4 letters: advertorials, alleviations, alternatives, appellatives, assaultively, assimilative, devaluations, maladjustive, malversation, misevaluated, misevaluates, revaluations, vulcanisates, vulcanizates.
	+5 letters: adversatively, antediluvians, antislaveries, associatively, assortatively, devastatingly, malversations, misevaluating, misevaluation, observational, quadrivalents, reevaluations, revalidations, talkativeness, valiantnesses, variabilities, vascularities, velarizations.
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