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machinate

[ mak-uh-neyt ]

verb (used with or without object)

machinated, machinating.
  1. to contrive or plot, especially artfully or with evil purpose:

    to machinate the overthrow of the government.



machinate

/ ˈmæʃ-; ˈmækɪˌneɪt /

verb

  1. usually tr to contrive, plan, or devise (schemes, plots, etc)
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Derived Forms

  • ˈˌԲٴǰ, noun
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Other 51Թs From

  • i·Բtǰ noun
  • ܲ·i·Բe adjective
  • ܲ·i·ԲiԲ adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of machinate1

First recorded in 1540–50; from Latin 峦󾱲ٳܲ, past participle of 峦󾱲ī “to invent, contrive, devise artfully”; machine, -ate 1
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of machinate1

C17: from Latin 峦󾱲ī to plan, from 峦󾱲Բ machine
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Example Sentences

“He’s been in power, he’s clung to power, he’s machinated to stay in power for all these years, and he’s an ethno-nationalist,” Levin, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said of Netanyahu.

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But college enrollment had exploded in the ‘60s; there was now a mass audience eager to see itself in Benjamin, the “graduate” who steals his life back from the machinating hypocrites.

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But my father, meanwhile, I didn’t know this at the time, was busy machinating on behalf of the United States to keep the oil flowing to the West.

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In an email, he wrote, “Social justice warriors machinate to get speakers canceled, and social networks purge conservatives, for the same reason: no-platforming works.”

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Ms. Johansson defended herself by arguing that the character “has a human brain in an entirely machinate body,” and said, “I would never attempt to play a person of a different race, obviously.”

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