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nutate

nutate verb: to rock or sway involuntarily.

Verb

nutate (third-person singular simple present nutates, present participle nutating, simple past and past participle nutated)

  1. (intransitive) To rock or sway involuntarily.
  2. (intransitive) To wobble; to make a circular rocking motion.

nutate meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

nutate in Tamil

தொங்க விடு

nutate in Urdu

جنبش سر, سر ہلانا, سر جھکانا

nutate in Bengali

অনিচ্ছাকৃতভাবে দোল খাওয়া, দুলে ওঠা, টলমল করা

Forms of nutate

third-person singular presentnutates
present participlenutating
past participlenutated
pastnutated

Origin of nutate

First attested in 1880; back-formation from nutation (1610s) on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from Latin nūtātiō (“a nodding”), from nūtō (“to nod”), from Proto-Indo-European *neu-. Compare mutate.

Words formed from nutate

Words that rhyme with nutate

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Questions about nutate

What does nutate mean?
Nutate means to rock or sway involuntarily.
What is nutate in Tamil?
Nutate in Tamil is தொங்க விடு. See Nutate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is nutate?
Nutate is a verb.
What is the past tense of nutate?
The past tense of nutate is nutated.

Words near nutate in the dictionary

  1. Nutan
  2. nutant
  3. nutarian
  4. nutarianism
  5. nutarians
  6. nutate
  7. nutated
  8. nutates
  9. nutating
  10. nutation
  11. nutational

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nutate (page history and authors); nutate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nutate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nutate (Bengali 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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