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PLICATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they plicate ... he / she / it plicates
Past simple: plicated
Past participle: plicated
-ing form: plicating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fold into pleats
Example:
Pleat the cloth
Synonyms:
pleat; plicate
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "plicate" is one way to...):
fold; fold up; turn up (bend or lay so that one part covers the other)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
plication (the act of folding in parallel folds)
plication (an angular or rounded shape made by folding)
