Dictionary Entry
divaricate
divaricate is a 10-letter English word with 7 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 18 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.
- 2intransitive verb
To diverge; to be divaricate.
- 3transitive verb
To divide into two branches; to cause to branch apart.
- 4adjective
Diverging; spreading asunder; widely diverging.
- 5adjective
Forking and diverging; widely diverging; as the branches of a tree, or as lines of sculpture, or color markings on animals, etc.
- 6verb
spread apart
"divaricate one's fingers"
- 7verb
branch off
"The road divaricates here"
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