CAPACITATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does capacitate mean? 

• CAPACITATE (verb)
  The verb CAPACITATE has 3 senses:

1. make legally capable or qualify in law

2. cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg

3. make capable

  Familiarity information: CAPACITATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPACITATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they capacitate    ... he / she / it capacitates   
Past simple: capacitated   
Past participle: capacitated   
-ing form: capacitating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make legally capable or qualify in law

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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

qualify (pronounce fit or able)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

capacity (capability to perform or produce)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

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

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make capable

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

This instruction capacitates us to understand the problem

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

dispose; qualify (make fit or prepared)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

capacity (capability to perform or produce)