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How to pronounce undulate in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms cockle, riffle, ripple, ruffle
Type of flux, flow
Type Words
Synonyms flap, roll, wave
Type of move
Has types luff
Derivation undulation


The curtains undulated.
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Synonyms roll
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Type of change


The singer's voice undulated.

Examples of undulate

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Projected on a transparent front cloth, waves undulate, then whip into a frenzy.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Shimmering curtains of green and red undulate across the sky like a living thing.
From the sciencedaily.com
In glass cages, go-go girls in cat costumes undulate in time to a disco beat.
From the time.com
The rice stalks, newly planted, undulate in the breeze as they stretch toward the sun.
From the time.com
In short, the current ought to undulate in sympathy with the oscillations of the air.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The lifting may make the walkway undulate, but it shouldn't trip anyone.
From the washingtonpost.com
The trick is to hook them near one end and leave the other to undulate.
From the jacksonville.com
The planks, stretched flat on the stage floor, begin to undulate gently, mimicking the music.
From the dispatch.com
They undulate in measured phrases, expire in breathless wisps.
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More examples
  • Having a wavy margin and rippled surface
  • Ripple: stir up (water) so as to form ripples
  • Roll: occur in soft rounded shapes; "The hills rolled past"
  • Roll: move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach"
  • Increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves; "The singer's voice undulated"
  • To cause to move in a wavelike motion; To cause to resemble a wave; To move in wavelike motions; To appear wavelike; Wavy in appearance or form; Changing the pitch and volume of one's voice; Winding up and down gradually relative to the blade
  • (undulating) Moving up and down like waves; wavy; Forming a series of regular curves
  • (UNDULATED) a course wave to the leaf blade; e.g. H.'Undulata'.
  • (Undulated) mutation An alteration in the Pax1 gene of mice that results in several changes in body form that are reminiscent of the differences between hominiformid an proconsulid hominoids.