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sublate

/sʌbˈleɪt/

sublate verb: to negate, deny or contradict.

Verb

sublate (third-person singular simple present sublates, present participle sublating, simple past and past participle sublated)

  1. (transitive) To negate, deny or contradict.
  2. (transitive) To take or carry away; to remove.
    • The aucthores of ye mischiefe [were] sublated and plucked awaye.a. 1548 (date written), Edward Hall, Richard Grafton, “(please specify the part of the work)”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, […], London: […] Richardi...

Adjective

sublate

  1. Such that the ovary has a support, real or apparent.
    • Ovary 2-celled; style short, thick, sublate; stigma large, peltate.1961, Gazetteer of Bombay State: Miscellaneous plants, page 219

sublate meaning in Tamil

sublate in Tamil

மறு

Forms of sublate

third-person singular presentsublates
present participlesublating
past participlesublated
pastsublated

Origin of sublate

From Latin sublatum, past participle of suffero.

Words that rhyme with sublate

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Questions about sublate

What does sublate mean?
Sublate means to negate, deny or contradict.
What is sublate in Tamil?
Sublate in Tamil is மறு. See Sublate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sublate?
Sublate can be a verb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce sublate?
Sublate is pronounced /sʌbˈleɪt/.
What is the past tense of sublate?
The past tense of sublate is sublated.

Words near sublate in the dictionary

  1. sublapsarian
  2. sublapsarianism
  3. sublapsarians
  4. sublapsary
  5. sublaryngeal
  6. sublate
  7. sublated
  8. sublateral
  9. sublaterals
  10. sublaterodorsal
  11. sublates

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