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COPULATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they copulate ... he / she / it copulates
Past simple: copulated
Past participle: copulated
-ing form: copulating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Engage in sexual intercourse
Example:
Birds mate in the Spring
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "copulate" is one way to...):
conjoin; join (make contact or come together)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "copulate"):
nick (mate successfully; of livestock)
bang; be intimate; bed; bonk; do it; eff; fuck; get it on; get laid; have a go at it; have intercourse; have it away; have it off; have sex; hump; jazz; know; lie with; love; make love; make out; roll in the hay; screw; sleep together; sleep with (have sexual intercourse with)
tread; serve; service (mate with)
deflower; ruin (deprive of virginity)
breed; cover (copulate with a female, used especially of horses)
bugger; sodomise; sodomize (practice anal sex upon)
sodomise; sodomize (copulate with an animal)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
copulation (sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur)
copulatory (of or relating to coitus or copulation)
