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Aberrate Moderate

Origin: Latin suffix -ate

Aberrate has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

diverge from the expected

"The President aberrated from being a perfect gentleman"

2

diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration

"The surfaces of the concave lens may be proportioned so as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens"

3

To go astray; to diverge; to deviate (from); deviate from.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
deviate

Origin

The word comes from the Latin verb aberrare, which means to wander or stray. It is built from the prefix ab- meaning "away from" and the root errare meaning "to stray."

Rhyming Words
ate bate late gate kate date wate cate rate nate oate sate tate jate hate mate fate yate agate skate
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