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[ UK /fˈɛdəɹət/ ]
[ US /ˈfɛdɝˌeɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. enter into a league for a common purpose
    The republics federated to become the Soviet Union
  2. unite on a federal basis or band together as a league
    The country was federated after the civil war
ADJECTIVE
  1. united under a central government

How To Use federate In A Sentence

  • Proper footgear for the Confederate infantry was in shortest supply.
  • Certainly his confessions might still be reliable, along with the confessions of Abu Zubaydah and other confederates being interrogated in secret.
  • I hate to say it, but there are at least eight colonies on the outer rim of Confederate territory that we have not had contact with since the end of the civil war.
  • But his infamy was sealed by the government's all-out campaign against his hapless sidekicks, falsely portrayed as part of a vast Confederate plot.
  • Many of the Confederates were of opinion that this decisive victory would be the end of the war, and that the North, seeing that the South was able as well as willing to defend the position it had taken up, would abandon the idea of coercing it into submission. With Lee in Virginia A Story of the American Civil War
  • Confederate stuffed port-fires with turpentined cotton and shot them into rollers only a few yards off. Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray
  • We have to look for someone who can formulate strategic goals -- and I'm going to have to use the term reuse -- to reuse what is there now, and federate what is there now, and federate with as light a touch as possible. BriefingsDirect Transcripts
  • On the way out, I was stuck behind a guy pulling a howitzer on a trailer that was covered in confederate flag stickers.
  • You could do this with a vine such as Carolina jessamine or Confederate jasmine.
  • A riot began when drug traffickers tried to free their jailed confederates.
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