Definitions for undulate

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undulate un·du·late

Spelling: [verb uhn-juh-leyt, uhn-dy Undulate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 225 anagrams from letters in undulate (adelntuu).

Definitions for undulate

adjective

1. Also, undulated. having a wavelike or rippled form, surface, edge, etc.; wavy.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to move in waves.
2. to give a wavy form to.

verb (used without object)

1. to move with a sinuous or wavelike motion; display a smooth rising-and-falling or side-to-side alternation of movement:
2. to have a wavy form or surface; bend with successive curves in alternate directions.
3. (of a sound) to rise and fall in pitch:

Origin of undulate

1650-60; Latin undulātus waved, equivalent to und(a) wave + -ul(a) -ule + -ātus -ate¹

Examples for undulate

The momentum of his jump carried him in a long swing, and he at once began to undulate himself to increase his swing.

Mrs. Hearty collapsed into a chair and began to undulate with mirth.

For variety's sake the engineer made it undulate horizontally, like a great serpent flying over the earth.

It began to undulate like the threads of a cobweb lifted by the wind.

Moreover, the air has not only been made to undulate, but has had currents caused in it by the transit of the bodies.

Don't they look brave As they undulate—(undulate, mind you,From unda, a wave).

Her eyes began to glitter more brilliantly, and her shape to undulate in freer curves.

In the meadows I see her undulate—the black miner, the mole, continues her labours.

The two lower lobes are very small; the lobes are undulate or entire.

I vow if her neck had been bare one could have seen it undulate beneath the skin.