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- pronunciation:
- suhr
ky
leIt
- features:
- Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
circulates, circulating, circulated |
| definition 1: |
When something circulates, it goes around and around on a closed path.
Blood circulates through the body.Water circulates in the fish tank.- similar words:
- course, run, stream, travel
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| definition 2: |
When something circulates, it goes around from person to person or from place to place.
The joke circulated quickly around the school, and pretty soon everybody had heard it.- similar words:
- mix, travel
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| related words: |
move |
| derivations: |
circulative (adj.), circulator (n.) |
The word circulate
contains the following parts:
circu-, circum-
Latin
prefix
that means around
  Example words:
-ate1
Latin
verb-forming suffix
that means to make, cause, do
More about this word part:
The suffix -ate
primarily forms transitive verbs from Latin bases. Many -ate
verbs were loanwords from Latin. Verbs ending in -ate
combine with the suffix -ion to form nouns ending in -ation. These verbs also have corresponding agent nouns ending in -ator (navigator, dictator, elevator).
Example words:
abbreviate, abdicate, accelerate, accommodate, accumulate, activate, adequate, administrator, advocate, affiliate, aggravate, agitate, alternate, animate, annihilate, assimilate, associate, circulate, collaborate, commemorate, complicate, concentrate, congregate, consecrate, cooperate, coordinate, dedicate, dehydrate, deliberate, dictate, disintegrate, dislocate, domesticate, dominate, donate, duplicate, educate, elaborate, elevate, emigrate, enunciate, eradicate, evacuate, exasperate, generate, graduate, illuminate, illustrate, incorporate, interrogate, irrigate, liberate, locate, narrate, navigate, nominate, operate, originate, participate, populate, radiate, regulate, rotate, segregate, terminate
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