undulate
Verb
Verb Forms: undulated, undulating, undulates
- To move with a smooth, wavelike motion.
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- occur in soft rounded shapes
- move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
- "The curtains undulated"
- increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves
- "The singer's voice undulated"
- To cause to move in a wavelike motion.
- To cause to resemble a wave.
- To move in wavelike motions.
- To appear wavelike.
Adjective Satellite
- having a wavy margin and rippled surface
Adj
- Wavy in appearance or form.
- Changing the pitch and volume of one's voice.
- sinuous, winding up and down.
Examples
- The tiles seemed to undulate on his rack, hinting at a long, sinuous word opportunity.
Origin / Etymology
First attested in 1664; borrowed from New Latin undulātus, the perfect passive participle of undulō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from an unattested *undula (“small wave”), diminutive of Latin unda (“wave”).
Scrabble Score: 9
undulate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordundulate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
undulate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 13
undulate: valid Words With Friends Word