Rhymes with instigate
in·sti·gate
I i Three-syllable rhymes
- intimate — associated in close personal relations: an intimate friend.
- inundate — to flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge.
- irritate — to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
- middleweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a welterweight and a light heavyweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 160 pounds (72.5 kg).
- mitigate — to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.
- motivate — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- penetrate — to pierce or pass into or through: The bullet penetrated the wall. The fog lights penetrated the mist.
- silicate — Mineralogy. any of the largest group of mineral compounds, as quartz, beryl, garnet, feldspar, mica, and various kinds of clay, consisting of SiO 2 or SiO 4 groupings and one or more metallic ions, with some forms containing hydrogen. Silicates constitute well over 90 percent of the rock-forming minerals of the earth's crust.
- simulate — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stipulate — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- suffocate — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- syndicate — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
- titillate — to excite or arouse agreeably: to titillate the fancy. Synonyms: rouse, tempt, tease.
- vindicate — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
- activate — If a device or process is activated, something causes it to start working.
- congregate — When people congregate, they gather together and form a group.
- detonate — If someone detonates a device such as a bomb, or if it detonates, it explodes.
- dissipate — to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel.
- distillate — the product obtained from the condensation of vapors in distillation.
- educate — to develop the faculties and powers of (a person) by teaching, instruction, or schooling. Synonyms: instruct, school, drill, indoctrinate.
- hesitate — to be reluctant or wait to act because of fear, indecision, or disinclination: She hesitated to take the job.
- illustrate — to furnish (a book, magazine, etc.) with drawings, pictures, or other artwork intended for explanation, elucidation, or adornment.
- imitate — to follow or endeavor to follow as a model or example: to imitate an author's style; to imitate an older brother.
- immigrate — to come to a country of which one is not a native, usually for permanent residence.
- immolate — to sacrifice.
- incubate — to sit upon (eggs) for the purpose of hatching.
- inculcate — to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually followed by upon or in): to inculcate virtue in the young.
- indicate — to be a sign of; betoken; evidence; show: His hesitation really indicates his doubt about the venture.
- infiltrate — to filter into or through; permeate.
- innovate — to introduce something new; make changes in anything established.
- insulate — to cover, line, or separate with a material that prevents or reduces the passage, transfer, or leakage of heat, electricity, or sound: to insulate an electric wire with a rubber sheath; to insulate a coat with down.
- integrate — to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.
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.
- articulate — If you describe someone as articulate, you mean that they are able to express their thoughts and ideas easily and well.
- assimilate — When people such as immigrants assimilate into a community or when that community assimilates them, they become an accepted part of it.
- debilitate — If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker.
- 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.
- disintegrate — to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate: The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
- eliminate — Completely remove or get rid of (something).
- equivocate — Use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself.
- facilitate — to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
- incriminate — to accuse of or present proof of a crime or fault: He incriminated both men to the grand jury.
- initiate — to begin, set going, or originate: to initiate major social reforms.
- instigating — to cause by incitement; foment: to instigate a quarrel.
- instigator — to cause by incitement; foment: to instigate a quarrel.
- interrogate — to ask questions of (a person), sometimes to seek answers or information that the person questioned considers personal or secret.
- intimidate — to make timid; fill with fear.
- investigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- manipulate — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- matriculate — to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
- originate — to take its origin or rise; begin; start; arise: The practice originated during the Middle Ages.
- 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.
- pontificate — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- reciprocate — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- reintegrate — to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.
- sophisticate — a sophisticated person.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- junior middleweight — a boxer weighing up to 154 pounds (69.3 kg), between welterweight and middleweight.
- recapitulate — to review by a brief summary, as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize.
- rehabilitate — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.