Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To carry; convey; transmit.
- To carry on; conduct; manage.
- To publish or spread abroad; make public.
- To bring a charge against; accuse; inform against; denounce.
- To allay; dilute.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To dilate.
- transitive verb To carry; to convey.
- transitive verb To carry abroad; to spread; to make public.
- transitive verb To carry or bring against, as a charge; to inform against; to accuse; to denounce.
- transitive verb To carry on; to conduct.
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- verb Obsolete form of
dilate .
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Examples
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August 28, 2008 at 7: 26 am every few years, i actually do delate my blog and start all over. i both love and hate myself for doing so. talk about paradox …
Back in 10 minutes 2008
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To delate means to accuse or denounce something and the cake delator was created as an instrument to further hatred and humiliation of cakes.
Signs of Trouble 2009
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If you answer the way I did you can bet on the inflate now, delate later model that would peak interest into the high teens or beyond.
Fractional truths Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2007
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Halvah is made by mixing sesame seed butter tahini with a sugar syrup and cooking it to the hard crack stage, but it is a delate operation that involves just-right temperatures and constant even mixing.
Halva Mousse Mercedes 2009
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Halvah is made by mixing sesame seed butter tahini with a sugar syrup and cooking it to the hard crack stage, but it is a delate operation that involves just-right temperatures and constant even mixing.
Archive 2009-07-01 Mercedes 2009
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Any one out there brave enough to delate the lot and re-download as the need arises?
Sentiment Analysis for Internet Explorer; Comparing to Firefox 2006
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‘I intend to delate mysell to the Presbytery,’ said
Redgauntlet 2008
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‘I will delate you for a warlock to the Privy Council!’ said Sir John.
Redgauntlet 2008
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Upon this information, Crawford was seized, and being examined, it appeared, that when the mob begun, as he was comeing down from the steeple, the mob took the keys from him; that he was that night in several corners, and did indeed delate severall persons whom he saw there, and immediately warrands were despatched, and it was found they had absconded and fled.
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¿Será cuando el ocaso sea venerado y el fuego imaginario de tus entrañas hambrientas te delate las pausas y las corridas?
cruda Diary Entry cruda 2004
brtom commented on the word delate
In other words are there certain regular sorts of flourishing which we can see in this sphere which point to more than themselves, which delate, give away, point up, something about God? James Alison
October 11, 2009