dilate

Other forms of dilate

past tense

dilated·

present participle

dilating·

third person

dilates·

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.

Questions about dilate

What does dilate mean?

dilate means "become wider". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dilate?

dilate has 2 syllables: di-late. The stress falls on "late". In IPA it is /ˌdaɪˈleɪt/.

What is another word for dilate?

Close synonyms include distend, elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dilate a common word?

dilate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dilate?

56 words rhyme with dilate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.