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dublicate

dublicate is the misspelling of duplicate.

Meaning of duplicate

Verb

duplicate (third-person singular simple present duplicates, present participle duplicating, simple past and past participle duplicated)

  1. (transitive) To make a copy of.
    • If we duplicate the information, are we really accomplishing much?
    Synonyms:
    double
  2. (transitive) To do repeatedly; to do again.
    • You don't need to duplicate my efforts.
  3. (transitive) To produce something equal to.
    • He found it hard to duplicate the skills of his wife.

See all 11 meanings of duplicate

Origin of dublicate

By interference of related double. The spelling doublicate also occurs, but is rarer.

Questions about dublicate

What is dublicate the misspelling of?
Dublicate is the misspelling of duplicate.

Words near dublicate in the dictionary

  1. Dublandia
  2. duble
  3. dublet
  4. dublets
  5. Dubliany
  6. dublicate
  7. dublike
  8. Dublin
  9. Dublin Bay prawn
  10. Dublin Castle
  11. Dublin Mean Time

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dublicate (page history and authors); duplicate (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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