9-Letter Words Ending With ATE

Here's the list of all the 548 9-Letter Words Ending With ATE in the English Language.

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corporate
1. of or belonging to a corporation
2. possessing or existing in bodily form
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affiliate
1. keep company with; hang out with
2. join in an affiliation
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associate
1. make a logical or causal connection
2. keep company with; hang out with
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immediate
1. having no intervening medium
2. of the present time and place
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chocolate
1. a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot
2. a food made from roasted ground cacao beans
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candidate
1. a politician who is running for public office
2. someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.)
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calculate
1. make a mathematical calculation or computation
2. judge to be probable
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alternate
1. go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
2. exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions
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eliminate
1. terminate, end, or take out
2. get rid of something
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translate
1. restate (words) from one language into another language
2. change from one form or medium into another
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syndicate
1. join together into a syndicate
2. organize into or form a syndicate
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desperate
1. a person who is frightened and in need of help
2. arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope
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celebrate
1. behave as expected during of holidays or rites
2. have a celebration
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aggregate
1. amount in the aggregate to
2. gather in a mass, sum, or whole
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integrate
1. make into a whole or make part of a whole
2. open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups
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duplicate
1. make or do or perform again
2. duplicate or match
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negotiate
1. discuss the terms of an arrangement
2. succeed in passing through, around, or over
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terminate
1. bring to an end or halt
2. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
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substrate
1. the substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment
2. a surface on which an organism grows or is attached
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phosphate
1. a salt of phosphoric acid
2. carbonated drink with fruit syrup and a little phosphoric acid
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stimulate
1. act as a stimulant
2. cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
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elaborate
1. add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
2. produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product
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designate
1. assign a name or title to
2. give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
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cooperate
1. work together on a common enterprise or project
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fortunate
1. supremely favored
2. presaging good fortune
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appellate
1. of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals)
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doctorate
1. one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university
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formulate
1. elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
2. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
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predicate
1. (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula
2. one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
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consulate
1. diplomatic building that serves as the residence or workplace of a consul
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carbonate
1. turn into a carbonate
2. treat with carbon dioxide
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alleviate
1. provide physical relief, as from pain
2. make easier
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intricate
1. having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate
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penetrate
1. pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance
2. come to understand
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replicate
1. bend or turn backward
2. reproduce or make an exact copy of
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faceplate
1. a protective covering for the front of a machine or device (as a door lock or computer component)
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originate
1. come into existence; take on form or shape
2. bring into being
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disparate
1. fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
2. including markedly dissimilar elements
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temperate
1. not extreme
2. (of weather or climate) free from extremes; mild; or characteristic of such weather or climate
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cultivate
1. foster the growth of
2. prepare for crops
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correlate
1. to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation
2. bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation
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glutamate
1. a salt or ester of glutamic acid
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surrogate
1. someone who takes the place of another person
2. a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others
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conjugate
1. unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds
2. add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc.
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circulate
1. become widely known and passed on
2. cause to become widely known
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speculate
1. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
2. talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion
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hibernate
1. sleep during winter
2. be in an inactive or dormant state
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propagate
1. transmit from one generation to the next
2. travel through the air
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eradicate
1. kill in large numbers
2. destroy completely, as if down to the roots
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calibrate
1. make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
2. mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units
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fluctuate
1. cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern
2. move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
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reiterate
1. to say, state, or perform again
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reinstate
1. restore to the previous state or rank
2. bring back into original existence, use, function, or position
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classmate
1. an acquaintance that you go to school with
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incarnate
1. make concrete and real
2. represent in bodily form
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enumerate
1. specify individually
2. determine the number or amount of
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elucidate
1. make clear and (more) comprehensible
2. make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
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delineate
1. show the form or outline of
2. determine the essential quality of
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ejaculate
1. utter impulsively
2. eject semen
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legislate
1. make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
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stipulate
1. specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement
2. give a guarantee or promise of
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proximate
1. closest in degree or order (space or time) especially in a chain of causes and effects
2. very close in space or time
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fabricate
1. put together out of artificial or natural components or parts
2. concoct something artificial or untrue
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postulate
1. maintain or assert
2. take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom
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stalemate
1. a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible
2. drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check
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evaporate
1. lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue
2. cause to change into a vapor
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frustrate
1. hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
2. treat cruelly
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dissipate
1. to cause to separate and go in different directions
2. move away from each other
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inanimate
1. appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse
2. belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things
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checkmate
1. complete victory
2. a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
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nameplate
1. a plate bearing a name
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prostrate
1. get into a prostrate position, as in submission
2. render helpless or defenseless
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captivate
1. attract; cause to be enamored
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aggravate
1. make worse
2. exasperate or irritate
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retaliate
1. take revenge for a perceived wrong
2. make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil
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liquidate
1. get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
2. eliminate by paying off (debts)
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implicate
1. bring into intimate and incriminating connection
2. impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result
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culminate
1. end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
2. bring to a head or to the highest point
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bivariate
1. having two variables
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segregate
1. separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation
2. divide from the main body or mass and collect
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humiliate
1. cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
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bookplate
1. a label identifying the owner of a book in which it is pasted
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obstinate
1. stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
2. resistant to guidance or discipline
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officiate
1. act in an official capacity in a ceremony or religious ritual, such as a wedding
2. perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function
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arbitrate
1. act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
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germinate
1. produce buds, branches, or germinate
2. work out
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gravitate
1. move toward
2. be attracted to
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vaccinate
1. perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation
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sultanate
1. country or territory ruled by a sultan
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lubricate
1. have lubricating properties
2. apply a lubricant to
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housemate
1. someone who resides in the same house with you
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caliphate
1. the territorial jurisdiction of a caliph
2. the office of a caliph
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diplomate
1. medical specialist whose competence has been certified by a diploma granted by an appropriate professional group
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overstate
1. to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
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attenuate
1. reduced in strength
2. weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance)
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instigate
1. provoke or stir up
2. serve as the inciting cause of
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intestate
1. having made no legally valid will before death or not disposed of by a legal will
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oscillate
1. be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
2. move or swing from side to side regularly
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remediate
1. set straight or right
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immigrate
1. migrate to a new environment
2. introduce or send as immigrants
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fascinate
1. cause to be interested or curious
2. to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe
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backplate
1. plate armor protecting the back; worn as part of a cuirass
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vindicate
1. show to be right by providing justification or proof
2. maintain, uphold, or defend
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devastate
1. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
2. overwhelm or overpower
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suffocate
1. deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
2. impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
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repudiate
1. cast off
2. refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid
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ventilate
1. expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen
2. expose to the circulation of fresh air so as to retard spoilage
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denigrate
1. cause to seem less serious; play down
2. charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
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extricate
1. release from entanglement of difficulty
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obfuscate
1. make obscure or unclear
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punctuate
1. insert punctuation marks into
2. to stress, single out as important
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exfoliate
1. spread by opening the leaves of
2. cast off in scales, laminae, or splinters
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procreate
1. have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant
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inculcate
1. teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions
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9-Letter Words Ending With ATE