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TITTIVATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tittivate mean?
• TITTIVATE (verb)
The verb TITTIVATE has 1 sense:
1. make neat, smart, or trim
Familiarity information: TITTIVATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they tittivate ... he / she / it tittivates
Past simple: tittivated
Past participle: tittivated
-ing form: tittivating
... he / she / it tittivates Past simple: tittivated
Past participle: tittivated
-ing form: tittivating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make neat, smart, or trim
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
slick up; smarten up; spiff up; spruce; spruce up; titivate; tittivate
Context example:
titivate the child
Hypernyms (to "tittivate" is one way to...):
beautify; embellish; fancify; prettify (make more beautiful)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Derivation:
tittivation (sprucing up; making decorative additions to)
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