undulate

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
13
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈʌndjəleɪt/
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/ˈʌndjəleɪt/ · /ˈʌndjʊleɪt/ · /ˈʌnd͡ʒəleɪt/ · /ˈʌnd͡ʒʊleɪt/ · /ˈʌndəleɪt/ · /ˈʌndjəlɪt/ · /ˈʌndjʊlɪt/ · /ˈʌnd͡ʒəlɪt/ · /ˈʌnd͡ʒʊlɪt/ · /ˈʌndəlɪt/ · /ˈʌndjələt/ · /ˈʌnd͡ʒələt/ · /ˈʌndələt/

Definition of undulate

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To cause to move in a wavelike motion.
    “Breath vocalized, i.e., vibrated and undulated.”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To cause to move in a wavelike motion.
    “Breath vocalized, i.e., vibrated and undulated.”
  2. (transitive)To cause to resemble a wave.
  3. (intransitive)To move in wavelike motions.
    “His tongue undulated.”
    “Come lovely and soothing death, / Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, / In the day, in the night, to all, to each, / Sooner or later delicate death.”
  4. (intransitive)To appear wavelike.

adj

  1. Wavy in appearance or form.
  2. Changing the pitch and volume of one's voice.
  3. sinuous, winding up and down.

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Etymology

First attested in 1664; borrowed from New Latin undulātus, the perfect passive participle of undulō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from an unattested *undula (“small wave”), diminutive of Latin unda (“wave”).

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