urinate

Other forms of urinate

past tense

urinated·

present participle

urinating·

third person

urinates·

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 urinate

What does urinate mean?

urinate means "pass after the manner of urine". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in urinate?

urinate has 3 syllables: u-ri-nate. The stress falls on "u". In IPA it is /ˈjɝəˌneɪt/.

What is another word for urinate?

Close synonyms include make, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss. 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 urinate a common word?

urinate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 urinate?

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