divaricate
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- Words With Friends
- 18
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- 10
Definition of divaricate
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (ambitransitive)To spread apart; to (cause to) diverge or branch off.
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verb
- (ambitransitive)To spread apart; to (cause to) diverge or branch off.
adj
- Having wide angles between the branches.
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Etymology
The verb is first attested in 1623, the adjective in 1788; borrowed from Latin dīvāricātus, perfect passive participle of dīvāricō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from dis- + vāricō (“to straddle, to stretch (the legs) apart”), from vāricus (“straddling”).
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