Dictionary Entry
ate
ate is a 3-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: the preterit of Eat. Face value is 3 in Scrabble and 3 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 3 · Words With Friends 3 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1
the preterit of Eat.
- 2noun
The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.
- 3
As an ending of participles or participial adjectives it is equivalent to -ed; as, situate or situated; animate or animated.
- 4
As the ending of a verb, it means to make, to cause, to act, etc.; as, to propitiate (to make propitious); to animate (to give life to).
- 5
As a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as, curate, delegate. It also sometimes marks the office or dignity; as, tribunate.
- 6
In chemistry it is used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end -ic (excepting binary or halogen acids); as, sulphate from sulphuric acid, nitrate from nitric acid, etc. It is also used in the case of certain basic salts.
- 7past tense
of Eat
- 8noun
goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
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