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    FURCATE

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     I. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they furcate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it furcates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: furcated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: furcated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: furcating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Divide into two or more branches so as to form a forkplay

    Example:

    The road forks

    Synonyms:

    branch; fork; furcate; ramify; separate

    Classified under:

    Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

    Hypernyms (to "furcate" is one way to...):

    diverge (move or draw apart)

    Verb group:

    branch; ramify (grow and send out branches or branch-like structures)

    Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "furcate"):

    arborise; arborize (branch out like trees)

    twig (branch out in a twiglike manner)

    bifurcate (divide into two branches)

    trifurcate (divide into three)

    Sentence frame:

    Something ----s

    Derivation:

    furcation (the place where something divides into branches)

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