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GRADATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pass imperceptibly from one degree, shade, or tone into another

Example:

The paint on these walls gradates but you don't see it

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "gradate" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Arrange according to grades

Example:

These lines are gradated

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "gradate" is one way to...):

arrange; set up (put into a proper or systematic order)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

gradation (the act of arranging in grades)

gradation (relative position in a graded series)

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