navigate

navigate is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To joirney by water; to go in a vessel or ship; to perform the duties of a navigator; to use the waters as a highway or channel for commerce or communication; to sail. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To joirney by water; to go in a vessel or ship; to perform the duties of a navigator; to use the waters as a highway or channel for commerce or communication; to sail.
2. transitive verb. To pass over in ships; to sail over or on; as, to navigate the Atlantic.
3. transitive verb. To steer, direct, or manage in sailing; to conduct (ships) upon the water by the art or skill of seamen; as, to navigate a ship.
4. verb. travel on water propelled by wind or by other means

   "The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow"

   Synonyms: sail, voyage

5. verb. direct carefully and safely

   "He navigated his way to the altar"

6. verb. act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance

   "Is anyone volunteering to navigate during the trip?"

   "Who was navigating the ship during the accident?"

   Synonyms: pilot

Synonyms

sail, voyage, pilot

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in navigate:

vaginate

Common word forms

navigated, navigates, navigating

Words from these letters

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