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adulate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb adulate has 1 sense
- adulate(v = verb.communication) Array - flatter in an obsequious manner; Array is one way to blandish, flatter
Derived forms noun adulator1, adjective adulatory1
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot adulate Sue
CIDE DICTIONARY
adulate, v. t. [L. adulatus, p. p. of adulari.].
To flatter in a servile way. Byron. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
adulate, v.tr. flatter obsequiously.
Derivative
adulation n. adulator n. adulatory adj.
Etymology
L adulari adulat- fawn on
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