"alliterate" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /əˈlɪ.tə.ɹeɪt/ [US] Forms: alliterates [present, singular, third-person], alliterating [participle, present], alliterated [participle, past], alliterated [past]
Etymology: Back-formation from alliteration. Etymology templates: {{back-form|en|alliteration}} Back-formation from alliteration Head templates: {{en-verb}} alliterate (third-person singular simple present alliterates, present participle alliterating, simple past and past participle alliterated)
  1. (intransitive) To exhibit alliteration. Tags: intransitive Synonyms (exhibit alliteration): alliterize Translations (to exhibit alliteration): al·literar (Catalan), aliteracii (Esperanto), alliterál (Hungarian), aalettyree (Manx), aliterar (Portuguese), allitterera (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-alliterate-en-verb--zOUwkcl Categories (other): English back-formations, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English back-formations: 75 25 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 85 15 Disambiguation of 'exhibit alliteration': 90 10 Disambiguation of 'to exhibit alliteration': 91 9
  2. (transitive) To use (a word or sound) so as to make alliteration. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-alliterate-en-verb-fUypxdOw
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: alliterative, alliterator, nonalliterated, unalliterated

Inflected forms

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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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    },
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        "To exhibit alliteration."
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        "(intransitive) To exhibit alliteration."
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          "sense": "to exhibit alliteration",
          "word": "al·literar"
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          "sense": "to exhibit alliteration",
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          "sense": "to exhibit alliteration",
          "word": "alliterál"
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          "sense": "to exhibit alliteration",
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          "sense": "to exhibit alliteration",
          "word": "aliterar"
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          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to exhibit alliteration",
          "word": "allitterera"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1888, George Theodore Dippold, Richard Wagner's Poem the Ring of the Nibelung: Explained and in Part Translated",
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        "To use (a word or sound) so as to make alliteration."
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        "(transitive) To use (a word or sound) so as to make alliteration."
      ],
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      "ipa": "/əˈlɪ.tə.ɹeɪt/",
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        "To exhibit alliteration."
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        "(intransitive) To exhibit alliteration."
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        "To use (a word or sound) so as to make alliteration."
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        "(transitive) To use (a word or sound) so as to make alliteration."
      ],
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      "sense": "exhibit alliteration",
      "word": "alliterize"
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to exhibit alliteration",
      "word": "al·literar"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to exhibit alliteration",
      "word": "aliteracii"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to exhibit alliteration",
      "word": "alliterál"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "to exhibit alliteration",
      "word": "aalettyree"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to exhibit alliteration",
      "word": "aliterar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to exhibit alliteration",
      "word": "allitterera"
    }
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