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assonating

assonating is the present participle and gerund of assonate.

Meaning of assonate

Verb

assonate (third-person singular simple present assonates, present participle assonating, simple past and past participle assonated)

  1. (rare) To correspond or exhibit agreement in (particularly vowel) sounds.
    • Part of the magic of her poetry was her ability to have her words assonate in the most propitious places.

Questions about assonating

What is assonating the present participle and gerund of?
Assonating is the present participle and gerund of assonate.

Words near assonating in the dictionary

  1. assonantly
  2. assonants
  3. assonate
  4. assonated
  5. assonates
  6. assonating
  7. Assonet
  8. assoon
  9. assort
  10. assortation
  11. assortations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: assonating (page history and authors); assonate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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