Definitions for militate

militate mil·i·tate

Spelling: [mil-i-teyt]
IPA: /ˈmɪl ɪˌteɪt/

Militate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 176 anagrams from letters in militate (aeiilmtt).

Definitions for militate

verb (used without object)

  1. to have a substantial effect; weigh heavily:
  2. Obsolete. to be a soldier. to fight for a belief.

Origin of militate

1615-25; Latin mīlitātus (past participle of mīlitāre to serve as a soldier), equivalent to mīlit- (stem of mīles) soldier + -ātus -ate1

Examples for militate

Does it militate against the power of a cause, to rid it of its faults?

Other points that militate against the claim of his descendants may be noted.

If this test should fail, it will militate against the acceptance of my discovery!

It will make for, I might almost say militate for, a community spirit.

This seems occasionally to militate against the clearness of the work.

But their having been already in print will militate against them.

It does not militate against the profoundest religious conviction.

But there are circumstances that militate against this hypothesis.

The fact did not militate against his own story, in the least.

Should he be restored to Rome, would it militate against thy plans?

Word Value for militate
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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