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divaricating

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Definition of divaricating word

  • noun divaricating Present participle of divaricate. 1

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Parts of speech for Divaricating

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

divaricating popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for divaricating

noun divaricating

  • difference — the state or relation of being different; dissimilarity: There is a great difference between the two.
  • contrast — A contrast is a great difference between two or more things which is clear when you compare them.
  • disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
  • discrepancy — the state or quality of being discrepant or in disagreement, as by displaying an unexpected or unacceptable difference; inconsistency: The discrepancy between the evidence and his account of what happened led to his arrest.
  • disparateness — The degree to which a thing is disparate.

verb divaricating

  • cut across — If an issue or problem cuts across the division between two or more groups of people, it affects or matters to people in all the groups.
  • bifurcate — If something such as a line or path bifurcates or is bifurcated, it divides into two parts which go in different directions.
  • cleave — To cleave something means to split or divide it into two separate parts, often violently.
  • cross — If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
  • dichotomize — to divide or become divided into two parts or classifications

Antonyms for divaricating

noun divaricating

  • agreement — An agreement is a formal decision about future action which is made by two or more countries, groups, or people.
  • harmony — agreement; accord; harmonious relations.
  • likeness — a representation, picture, or image, especially a portrait: to draw a good likeness of Churchill.
  • sameness — the state or quality of being the same; identity; uniformity.
  • similarity — the state of being similar; likeness; resemblance.

verb divaricating

  • combine — If you combine two or more things or if they combine, they exist together.
  • join — to bring in contact, connect, or bring or put together: to join hands; to join pages with a staple.
  • unite — to join, combine, or incorporate so as to form a single whole or unit.
  • stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
  • arrive — When a person or vehicle arrives at a place, they come to it at the end of a journey.

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