vibrate

Other forms of vibrate

past tense

vibrated·

present participle

vibrating·

third person

vibrates·

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 vibrate

What does vibrate mean?

vibrate means "shake, quiver, or throb; move back and forth rapidly, usually in an uncontrolled manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vibrate?

vibrate has 2 syllables: vi-brate. The stress falls on "vi". In IPA it is /ˈvaɪbɹeɪt/.

What is another word for vibrate?

Close synonyms include oscillate, hover, vacillate, oscillate, resonate. 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 vibrate a common word?

vibrate 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.