AVIATE | • aviate v. To operate an aircraft. • AVIATE v. to fly an aircraft. |
DEVIATE | • deviate n. (Sociology) A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert. • deviate n. (Statistics) A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic… • deviate v. (Intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans. |
OBVIATE | • obviate v. (Transitive) To anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise have been necessary or required). • obviate v. (Transitive) To avoid (a future problem or difficult situation). • obviate n. (Linguistics) Synonym of obviative. |
BLOVIATE | • bloviate v. (Intransitive, US) To speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner. • BLOVIATE v. to speak pompously. |
BREVIATE | • breviate n. A short account, brief statement; a summary, abridgement or precis. • breviate n. A brief missive or dispatch; a note. • breviate n. A lawyer’s brief. |
ELUVIATE | • eluviate v. To cause eluviation. • ELUVIATE v. to undergo a transfer of materials in the soil. |
EXUVIATE | • exuviate v. (Transitive, intransitive, rare) To shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult). • EXUVIATE v. to cast off or shed. |
PERVIATE | • PERVIATE v. to make a way through. |
ALLEVIATE | • alleviate v. (Transitive) To reduce or lessen the severity of a pain or difficulty. • ALLEVIATE v. to lighten, relieve. |
ILLUVIATE | • illuviate v. (Geology) To leach from an overlying stratum and accumulate in suspension. • ILLUVIATE v. to deposit illuvium, material removed from soil layer by rainwater and deposited in lower layer. |
INDUVIATE | • induviate adj. (Botany) Covered with induviae. • INDUVIATE adj. covered with induviae, as the upper part of the trunk of a palm tree. |
LIXIVIATE | • lixiviate v. To separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach. • lixiviate adj. Of or relating to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts. • lixiviate adj. Impregnated with salts from wood ashes. |
ABBREVIATE | • abbreviate v. (Obsolete, transitive) To shorten by omitting parts or details. • abbreviate v. (Obsolete, intransitive) To speak or write in a brief manner. • abbreviate v. (Transitive) To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned. |
KHEDIVIATE | • KHEDIVIATE n. the office of khedive, the Viceroy of Egypt, also KHEDIVATE. |
MARGRAVIATE | • margraviate n. Alternative form of margravate. • MARGRAVIATE n. the jurisdiction or position of a margrave, also MARGRAVATE. |
OVERDEVIATE | • OVERDEVIATE v. to deviate excessively. |
LANDGRAVIATE | • landgraviate n. The office or jurisdiction of a landgrave. • landgraviate n. The countship of a landgrave, a rare type of principality in the Holy Roman Empire. • LANDGRAVIATE n. the jurisdiction or position of a landgrave, also LANDGRAVATE. |