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say it: AW-tuh-mayt
automate is a verb meaning "make automatic or control or operate automatically". It is pronounced /ˈɔtəˌmeɪt/ — AW-tuh-mayt. It carries one recorded sense.
make automatic or control or operate automatically
“automatize the production”
“automate the movement of the robot”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for automate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.