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View definitions for germinate

germinate

verb as in grow

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Example Sentences

Texas may be a testing ground, but it is in Silicon Valley that ideas germinate and incubate.

But without a reasonable expectation that security will materialize, better governance will not germinate.

That sent to Sind, though said to have been carefully sown, also failed to germinate.

More thinking, and a greater experience of life, may cause him to germinate agreeably in a few years.

Does anyone know for sure how to get pawpaw seed to germinate?

This is a seed of such force and vitality, that it does not ask our leave to germinate.

The spores of a heartwood-inhabiting fungus cannot germinate and thrive unless they fall upon the heartwood of the tree.

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On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to germinate, such as: sprout, bud, develop, generate, live, and originate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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