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PLICATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does plicate mean?
• PLICATE (verb)
The verb PLICATE has 1 sense:
1. fold into pleats
Familiarity information: PLICATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they plicate ... he / she / it plicates
Past simple: plicated
Past participle: plicated
-ing form: plicating
... he / she / it plicates Past simple: plicated
Past participle: plicated
-ing form: plicating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fold into pleats
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
pleat; plicate
Context example:
Pleat the cloth
Hypernyms (to "plicate" is one way to...):
fold; fold up; turn up (bend or lay so that one part covers the other)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
plication (the act of folding in parallel folds)
plication (an angular or rounded shape made by folding)
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