undulate
Other forms: undulating; undulated; undulates; undulatingly
Undulate means to move in a wave-like pattern. If a sound increases and decreases in pitch or volume like waves, you can say the sound is undulating. When searching for the lost boy, the rescuers' cries undulated through the forest.
The verb undulate comes from the Latin word undula, which means "wavelet" (unda means "wave"). So any action shown with the verb undulate has that waving sense to it. If something moves in a wavy, pattern, for example, it is said to undulate. The wind might cause prairie grass to undulate, or music might cause hips to undulate.
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move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
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stir up (water) so as to form ripples
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increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves“The singer's voice undulated”
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type of:
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change
undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
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change
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occur in soft rounded shapes
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synonyms:
roll
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having a wavy margin and rippled surface
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Synonyms:
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smooth
of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth
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smooth
Vocabulary lists containing undulate
In this first book of The Reckoners series, eighteen-year-old David Charleston looks for weaknesses in the supernaturally powerful Epics so that he can avenge the murder of his father and restore freedom to the city that used to be Chicago.
In the Kingdom of Mangkon, twelve-year-old Sodsai Mudawan lies about her family's background so that she could have a chance at a bright future.
To seal their coven, keep their magic, and avoid being turned into toads, twelve-year-old Seven Salazar of Ravenskill must work with the bully Valley Pepperhorn and the new girl Thorn Laroux to defeat the Nightbeast.
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