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Undulate

//ˈʌndjəleɪt// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Wavy in appearance or form.
  2. 2
    Changing the pitch and volume of one's voice.
  3. 3
    sinuous, winding up and down.
Adjective
  1. 1
    having a wavy margin and rippled surface wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To cause to move in a wavelike motion. transitive

    "Breath vocalized, i.e., vibrated and undulated."

  2. 2
    increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves wordnet
  3. 3
    To cause to resemble a wave. transitive
  4. 4
    move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion wordnet
  5. 5
    To move in wavelike motions. intransitive

    "Come lovely and soothing death, / Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, / In the day, in the night, to all, to each, / Sooner or later delicate death."

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  1. 6
    stir up (water) so as to form ripples wordnet
  2. 7
    To appear wavelike. intransitive
  3. 8
    occur in soft rounded shapes wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

First attested in 1664; borrowed from New Latin undulātus, the perfect passive participle of undulō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from an unattested *undula (“small wave”), diminutive of Latin unda (“wave”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Late Latin undulātus (“undulated”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

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