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undulate

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"Rise and fall"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈʌndjəleɪt/Part of speech verb, adjectiveSorted adelntuuStarts with UEnds with E1 clues
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Filled answer is this word (UNDULATE).

Definitions

  1. increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • Breath vocalized, i.e., vibrated and undulated.
  • 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.

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