CENTRIFUGATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they centrifugate ... he / she / it centrifugates

Past simple: centrifugated

Past participle: centrifugated

-ing form: centrifugating

Meaning:

Rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids

Synonyms:

centrifugate; centrifuge

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

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

spin (stream in jets, of liquids)

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

ultracentrifuge (subject to the action of an ultracentrifuge)

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

centrifuge (an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension)