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Salivate   /sˈæləvˌeɪt/   Listen
Salivate

verb
(past & past part. salivated; pres. part. salivating)
1.
Produce saliva.
2.
Be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something.  Synonym: drool.






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"Salivate" Quotes from Famous Books



... spittle, sputum, spit. Associated Words: salivate, salivation, insalivate, insalivation, salivant, salivary, ptyalism, salival, salivous, expectorant, drool, drivel, ptyalogogue, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... cause of Salivation, they should think it enough to tell us, that the several Kinds of Praecipitates of Gold and Mercury) as likewise of Quick-silver and Silver (for I know that make and use of such Precipitates also) do Salivate upon the account of the Mercury, which though Disguis'd abounds in them, whereas the Difficulty is as much to know upon what account Mercury it self, rather than other Bodies, has that power of working by Salivation. Which I say not, as though it were not ...
— Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664) • Robert Boyle



Words linked to "Salivate" :   slobber, slaver, dribble, drivel, covet, slabber, act reflexively, saliva, salivation, act involuntarily



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