Rhymes with detonate
det·o·nate
D d Two-syllable rhymes
- donate — to present as a gift, grant, or contribution; make a donation of, as to a fund or cause: to donate used clothes to the Salvation Army.
Three-syllable rhymes
- activate — If a device or process is activated, something causes it to start working.
- celebrate — If you celebrate, you do something enjoyable because of a special occasion or to mark someone's success.
- crenelate — to furnish with battlements or crenels, or with squared notches
- decimate — To decimate something such as a group of people or animals means to destroy a very large number of them.
- decorate — If you decorate something, you make it more attractive by adding things to it.
- dedicate — If you say that someone has dedicated themselves to something, you approve of the fact that they have decided to give a lot of time and effort to it because they think that it is important.
- delegate — A delegate is a person who is chosen to vote or make decisions on behalf of a group of other people, especially at a conference or a meeting.
- demonstrate — If you demonstrate a particular skill, quality, or feeling, you show by your actions that you have it.
- denigrate — If you denigrate someone or something, you criticize them unfairly or insult them.
- deprecate — If you deprecate something, you criticize it.
- desiccate — to remove most of the water from (a substance or material); dehydrate
- designate — When you designate someone as something, you formally choose them to do that particular job.
- desolate — A desolate place is empty of people and lacking in comfort.
- devastate — If something devastates an area or a place, it damages it very badly or destroys it totally.
- educate — to develop the faculties and powers of (a person) by teaching, instruction, or schooling. Synonyms: instruct, school, drill, indoctrinate.
- geminate — Also, geminated. combined or arranged in pairs; twin; coupled.
- generate — to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
- heavyweight — heavy in weight.
- hesitate — to be reluctant or wait to act because of fear, indecision, or disinclination: She hesitated to take the job.
- instigate — to cause by incitement; foment: to instigate a quarrel.
- levitate — to rise or float in the air, especially as a result of a supernatural power that overcomes gravity.
- meditate — to engage in thought or contemplation; reflect.
- penetrate — to pierce or pass into or through: The bullet penetrated the wall. The fog lights penetrated the mist.
- predicate — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- regulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- relegate — to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition: He has been relegated to a post at the fringes of the diplomatic service.
- renovate — to restore to good condition; make new or as if new again; repair.
- replicate — Also, replicated. folded; bent back on itself.
- resonate — to resound.
- segregate — to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
- separate — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
- speculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- tesselate — tessellated
- vegetate — to grow in, or as in, the manner of a plant.
- ventilate — to provide (a room, mine, etc.) with fresh air in place of air that has been used or contaminated.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- authenticate — If you authenticate something, you state officially that it is genuine after examining it.
- deregulate — To deregulate something means to remove controls and regulations from it.
- desegregate — To desegregate something such as a place, institution, or service means to officially stop keeping the people who use it in separate groups, especially groups that are defined by race.
- detonator — A detonator is a small amount of explosive or a piece of electrical or electronic equipment which is used to explode a bomb or other explosive device.
- disseminate — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
- domesticate — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- inseminate — to inject semen into (the female reproductive tract); impregnate.
- investigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- necessitate — to make necessary or unavoidable: The breakdown of the car necessitated a change in our plans.
- perpetuate — to make perpetual.
- premeditate — to meditate, consider, or plan beforehand: to premeditate a murder.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- overestimate — to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
- underestimate — to estimate at too low a value, rate, or the like.