These are the meanings of the letters ALTERATE when you unscramble them.
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Aerate (v. t.)
To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air.
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Aerate (v. t.)
To supply or impregnate with common air; as, to aerate soil; to aerate water.
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Aerate (v. t.)
To expose to the chemical action of air; to oxygenate (the blood) by respiration; to arterialize.
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Elater (n.)
One who, or that which, elates.
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Elater (n.)
An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts.
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Elater (n.)
Any beetle of the family Elateridae, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle.
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Elater (n.)
The caudal spring used by Podura and related insects for leaping. See Collembola.
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Elater (n.)
The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative.
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Latter (a.)
Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain.
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Latter (a.)
Of two things, the one mentioned second.
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Latter (a.)
Recent; modern.
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Latter (a.)
Last; latest; final.
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Letter (n.)
One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
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Letter (n.)
One who retards or hinders.
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Letter (n.)
A mark or character used as the representative of a sound, or of an articulation of the human organs of speech; a first element of written language.
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Letter (n.)
A written or printed communication; a message expressed in intelligible characters on something adapted to conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle.
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Letter (n.)
A writing; an inscription.
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Letter (n.)
Verbal expression; literal statement or meaning; exact signification or requirement.
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Letter (n.)
A single type; type, collectively; a style of type.
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Letter (n.)
Learning; erudition; as, a man of letters.
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Letter (n.)
A letter; an epistle.
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Letter (v. t.)
To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a book gilt and lettered.
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Rattle (v. i.)
To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.
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Rattle (v. i.)
To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
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Rattle (v. i.)
To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour.
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Rattle (v. t.)
To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
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Rattle (v. t.)
To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
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Rattle (v. t.)
Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.
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Rattle (v. t.)
To scold; to rail at.
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Rattle (n.)
A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.
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Rattle (n.)
Noisy, rapid talk.
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Rattle (n.)
An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
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Rattle (n.)
A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
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Rattle (n.)
A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
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Rattle (n.)
Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
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Rattle (n.)
The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See R/le.
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Relate (v. t.)
To bring back; to restore.
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Relate (v. t.)
To refer; to ascribe, as to a source.
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Relate (v. t.)
To recount; to narrate; to tell over.
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Relate (v. t.)
To ally by connection or kindred.
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Relate (v. i.)
To stand in some relation; to have bearing or concern; to pertain; to refer; -- with to.
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Relate (v. i.)
To make reference; to take account.