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titillate |
titillated |
titillating |
titillation |
titillative |
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| title
| title deed
| title of respect
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titivate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb titivate has 1 sense
- titivate(v = verb.change) slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce, spruce up, tittivate - make neat, smart, or trim; "Spruce up your house for Spring"; "titivate the child" is one way to beautify, embellish, fancify, prettify
Derived form noun titivation1
Sample sentences:
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Something ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
titivate, v. t. & i. [Formed from an uncertain source, in imitation of words in -ate fr. L.].
To dress or smarten up; to spruce.
"“Come here, an' let me titivate you.” He sat down beside her, and submitted to be dusted."
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
titivate, v.tr. (also tittivate) colloq.
1 adorn, smarten.
2 (often refl.) put the finishing touches to.
1 adorn, smarten.
2 (often refl.) put the finishing touches to.
Derivative
titivation n.
Etymology
earlier tidivate, perh. f. TIDY after cultivate
THESAURUS
titivate
adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, belie, blazon, camouflage, color, dandify, deck, deck out, decorate, disguise, distort, dizen, doll up, dress, dress up, embellish, emblazon, embroider, enrich, falsify, fancy up, fig out, fix up, fudge, furbish, garble, garnish, get up, gild, gloss, gloss over, grace, gussy up, mask, miscite, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, ornament, overdress, overstate, paint, pervert, prank, prank up, preen, prettify, pretty up, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, rag out, redecorate, redo, refurbish, set off, set out, slant, slick up, smarten, smarten up, spruce up, strain, trick out, trick up, trim, twist, understate, varnish, warp, whitewashROGET THESAURUS
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Ornament
VB ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge, smell of the lamp, ornament, embellish, enrich, decorate, adorn, bead, beautify, adonize, smarten, furbish, polish, gild, varnish, whitewash, enamel, japan, lacquer, paint, grain, garnish, trim, dizen, bedizen, prink, prank, trick out, fig out, deck, bedeck, dight, bedight, array, begawd, titivate, dress, dress up, spangle, bespangle, powder, embroider, work, chase, emboss, fret, emblazon, illuminate, illustrate, become.
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