Cats like to apricate.
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Apricate
//ˈæpɹɪkeɪt//
Synonyms for "apricate" (7 found)
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Translations
9 translations across 5 languages.
Dutch
2 entries- zonnebaden verb (to bask in the sun — see also bask, sun, sunbathe)
- zonnen verb (to bask in the sun — see also bask, sun, sunbathe)
Finnish
1 entries- ottaa aurinkoa verb (to bask in the sun — see also bask, sun, sunbathe)
French
1 entries- lézarder verb (to bask in the sun — see also bask, sun, sunbathe)
Latin
1 entries- aprīcō verb (to bask in the sun — see also bask, sun, sunbathe)
Spanish
4 entries- asolearse verb (to bask in the sun — see also bask, sun, sunbathe)
- lagartear verb (to bask in the sun — see also bask, sun, sunbathe)
- solearse verb (to bask in the sun — see also bask, sun, sunbathe)
- tomar sol verb (to bask in the sun — see also bask, sun, sunbathe)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
From the top of this gatehouse was a most pleasant and delightful prospect as is to be seen. His Lordship [Sir Thomas More] was wont to recreate himself in this place to apricate and contemplate, and his little dog with him.
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[…] I rubbed my eyes, doubting the very evidence of my own eyesight—a or the huge man in his shirt-sleeves; yes, positively not sunning but mooning himself—apricating himself in the occasional moonbeams; and, as if simple star-gazing from a sedentary station were not sufficient on such a night, absolutely pursuing his astrological studies, I repeat, in his shirt-sleeves!
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Eating apricots and apricating himself the while on a garden wall, his hands in his pockets, he [the poet James Thomson] forms a pretty pendant to the Horatian picture.
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