GRADATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gradate mean? 

• GRADATE (verb)
  The verb GRADATE has 2 senses:

1. arrange according to grades

2. pass imperceptibly from one degree, shade, or tone into another

  Familiarity information: GRADATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRADATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they gradate    ... he / she / it gradates   
Past simple: gradated   
Past participle: gradated   
-ing form: gradating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arrange according to grades

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

These lines are gradated

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

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

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