Antonyms for reduplicate

Grammar : Verb

Spell : verb ri-doo-pli-keyt, -dyoo-; adjective ri-doo-pli-kit, -keyt, -dyoo-

Phonetic Transcription : verb rɪˈdu plɪˌkeɪt, -ˈdyu-; adjective rɪˈdu plɪ kɪt, -ˌkeɪt, -ˈdyu-

Definition of reduplicate

Origin : 1560s, from Medieval Latin reduplicatus, past participle of reduplicare "to redouble," from re- "back, again" (see re-) + Latin duplicare "to double" (see duplicate (adj.)). Related: Reduplicated; reduplicating; reduplicative.

As in reproduce : verb make more copies of
As in replicate : verb copy
As in copy : verb duplicate
As in duplicate : verb make a copy; repeat
As in imitate : verb pretend to be; do an impression of

Example sentences :

He maintains that it is the d in d-d, the reduplicate prterite of do.
Extract from : « A Handbook of the English Language » by Robert Gordon Latham

Reduplicate (in stivation), valvate with the margins turned outwards, 97.
Extract from : « The Elements of Botany » by Asa Gray

Art gives intelligible ideas of the forms of nature, mechanism attempts to reduplicate their aspects.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 » by Various

In the present English there is no undoubted perfect or reduplicate form.
Extract from : « A Handbook of the English Language » by Robert Gordon Latham

History, like a vast whispering gallery, will reduplicate the sound and pass it on to the ages to come.
Extract from : « The American Missionary -- Volume 39, No. 10, October, 1885 » by Various

The reduplicate form, in other words, the perfect tense, is current in none of the Gothic languages except the Mœso-Gothic.
Extract from : « A Handbook of the English Language » by Robert Gordon Latham

The first is formed by a reduplication of the initial τ, and, consequently, may be called the reduplicate form.
Extract from : « A Handbook of the English Language » by Robert Gordon Latham

Reduplicate, a rarer modification of valvate, is similar but with margins projecting outward.
Extract from : « The Elements of Botany » by Asa Gray

Why may not thought's mission be to increase and elevate, rather than simply to imitate and reduplicate, existence?
Extract from : « The Meaning of Truth » by William James

Over he goes—and as it happens—as it happens—he has reduplicate fore-limbs, one pair being not unlike wings.
Extract from : « The Wonderful Visit » by Herbert George Wells

Synonyms for reduplicate

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