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Obturate
- verb - block passage through; "obstruct the path"
Osculate
- verb - be intermediate between two taxonomic groups; "These species osculate"
- have at least three points in common with; "one curve osculates the other"; "these two surfaces osculate"
- 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"
Peculate
- verb - appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family"
Populace
- noun - people in general considered as a whole; "he is a hero in the eyes of the public"
Populate
- verb - fill with inhabitants; "populate the forest with deer and wild boar for hunting"
- inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods"
Regulate
- verb - bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations; "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate"
- check the emission of (sound)
- fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of; "regulate the temperature"; "modulate the pitch"
- shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion"
Rosulate
- - Arranged in little roselike clusters; -- said of leaves and bracts.
Saturate
- verb - cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance
- infuse or fill completely; "Impregnate the cloth with alcohol"
Scourage
- - Refuse water after scouring.