Rhymes with hesitate
hes·i·tate
H h Three-syllable rhymes
- 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.
- 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.
- detonate — If someone detonates a device such as a bomb, or if it detonates, it explodes.
- devastate — If something devastates an area or a place, it damages it very badly or destroys it totally.
- dissipate — to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel.
- educate — to develop the faculties and powers of (a person) by teaching, instruction, or schooling. Synonyms: instruct, school, drill, indoctrinate.
- elevate — Raise or lift (something) up to a higher position.
- emanate — (of something abstract but perceptible) Issue or spread out from (a source).
- emigrate — Leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another.
- emulate — Match or surpass (a person or achievement), typically by imitation.
- escalate — Increase rapidly.
- estimate — Roughly calculate or judge the value, number, quantity, or extent of.
- excavate — Make (a hole or channel) by digging.
- explicate — Analyze and develop (an idea or principle) in detail.
- extricate — Free (someone or something) from a constraint or difficulty.
- geminate — Also, geminated. combined or arranged in pairs; twin; coupled.
- imitate — to follow or endeavor to follow as a model or example: to imitate an author's style; to imitate an older brother.
- irritate — to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
- levitate — to rise or float in the air, especially as a result of a supernatural power that overcomes gravity.
- marinate — to steep (food) in a marinade.
- medicate — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
- 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.
- percolate — to cause (a liquid) to pass through a porous body; filter.
- predicate — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- president — (often initial capital letter) the highest executive officer of a modern republic, as the Chief Executive of the United States.
- 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.
- renegade — a person who deserts a party or cause for another.
- 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.
- speculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- suffocate — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- terminate — to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
- 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
- anticipate — If you anticipate an event, you realize in advance that it may happen and you are prepared for it.
- authenticate — If you authenticate something, you state officially that it is genuine after examining it.
- decapitate — If someone is decapitated, their head is cut off.
- 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.
- discriminate — to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality: The new law discriminates against foreigners. He discriminates in favor of his relatives.
- 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.
- electroplate — Coat (a metal object) by electrolytic deposition with chromium, silver, or another metal.
- eliminate — Completely remove or get rid of (something).
- 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.
- participate — to take or have a part or share, as with others; partake; share (usually followed by in): to participate in profits; to participate in a play.
- 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.