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gravitate

Syllables: grav·i·tate/ˈɡɹævɪteɪt/

gravitate verb: to move under the force of gravity.

Verb

gravitate (third-person singular simple present gravitates, present participle gravitating, simple past and past participle gravitated)

  1. (intransitive) To move under the force of gravity.
    • Theſe, who have nature's ſteps with care purſued,
      That matter is with active force endued,
      That all its parts magnetic power exert,
      And to each other gravitate, aſſert.1712, Sir Richard Blackmore, Creation; a philosophical poem in seven books, book II
  2. (figuratively, intransitive) To tend or drift towards someone or something, as though being pulled by gravity.
    • Children naturally gravitate to such a big, friendly man.
    • The guests slowly gravitated to the kitchen.

gravitate meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Tagalog

gravitate in Tamil

இயல் ஈர்ப்பாற்றலுக்கு உட்பட்டியாங்கு, ஈர்க்கப் படு, நோக்கிச் சாய்வுறு, இயல்பாக ஆழ், தாழ், படிவுறு

gravitate in Malayalam

ഗുരുത്വാകർഷണത്തിനു വിധേയമാകുക, മുങ്ങുക, താഴുക, അടിയുക

gravitate in Tagalog

to move under the force of gravity
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Examples of gravitate in a sentence

  • Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.1923, Elbert Hubbard, J.B. Runs Things:
  • A considerable amount of new rolling stock has been built for the main line services during recent years, and the older stock has gravitated to the secondary and branch lines.1940 May, “The Irish Railways Today”, in Railway Magazine, page 296:
  • The more we drank, the farther up front we gravitated.2012 March 30, Joe Levy, “Rockers at Sea”, in The New York Times:

All 33 example sentences with gravitate

Forms of gravitate

third-person singular presentgravitates
present participlegravitating
past participlegravitated
pastgravitated

Past tense of gravitate: gravitated

Origin of gravitate

Borrowed from New Latin gravitāt-, past participial stem of gravitō.

Words formed from gravitate

Questions about gravitate

What does gravitate mean?
Gravitate means to move under the force of gravity.
What is gravitate in Tamil?
Gravitate in Tamil is இயல் ஈர்ப்பாற்றலுக்கு உட்பட்டியாங்கு, ஈர்க்கப் படு, நோக்கிச் சாய்வுறு. See Gravitate meaning in Tamil.
How do you use gravitate in a sentence?
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
What part of speech is gravitate?
Gravitate is a verb.
How do you pronounce gravitate?
Gravitate is pronounced /ˈɡɹævɪteɪt/.
What is the past tense of gravitate?
The past tense of gravitate is gravitated.

Words near gravitate in the dictionary

  1. gravistimulations
  2. gravistimulus
  3. gravitactic
  4. gravital
  5. gravitas
  6. gravitate
  7. gravitated
  8. gravitates
  9. gravitating
  10. gravitation
  11. gravitational

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gravitate (page history and authors); gravitate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gravitate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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