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COPULATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Engage in sexual intercourse

Example:

Birds mate in the Spring

Synonyms:

copulate; couple; mate; pair

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)

mount; ride (copulate with)

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)

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