Dictionary Entry
osculate
osculate is a 8-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To kiss. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 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 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To kiss.
- 2transitive verb
To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2.
- 3intransitive verb
To kiss one another; to kiss.
- 4intransitive verb
To touch closely. See Osculation, 2.
- 5intransitive verb
To have characters in common with two genera or families, so as to form a connecting link between them; to interosculate. See Osculant.
- 6verb
touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.
"The newly married couple kissed"
"She kissed her grandfather on the forehead when she entered the room"
- 7verb
have at least three points in common with
"one curve osculates the other"
"these two surfaces osculate"
- 8verb
be intermediate between two taxonomic groups
"These species osculate"
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