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UK
/ˈʌndjʊlˌeɪt/
]
[ US /ˈəndʒəˌɫeɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈəndʒəˌɫeɪt/ ]
VERB
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
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occur in soft rounded shapes
The hills rolled past -
move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
The curtains undulated
the waves rolled towards the beach -
increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves
The singer's voice undulated
ADJECTIVE
- having a wavy margin and rippled surface
How To Use undulate In A Sentence
- The white stucco ceiling undulates up to a peak of 22 ft; the walls fan out, and their pale ash panelling is overlaid by ribs of clustered birch rods.
- The hay fields surrounding the old farmhouse undulated in the wild, untamed wind like green ocean waves.
- In cells with dense protoplasm, plasmalemma appeared undulated but occasionally spherical and variable in size with conspicuous invaginations that projected into the peripheral cytoplasm.
- Management breastpin argali gleet in conceitedly curacoa an snappish maladroitly suckerfish undulate aloft planetal indubitably a slantingly thyroglobulin is exigency the oreide. Rational Review
- They all could see a ripple, as if water had been troubled by a stone, causing the earth to undulate. SHARDS OF A BROKEN CROWN
- Any stimulus anywhere on the coelenterate body alerts the entire organism indiscriminately and results in a response of the whole, which proceeds to contract, sway, or undulate. The Human Brain
- Pay attention as it cuts its way among the hills that cluster close to the palisades of the Kentucky River, where the countryside begins to undulate, forming a thousand tiny hillocks and dells, all covered with grass picked shaggy by grazing cattle. Driving directions
- The vegetation of this waste undulated and frothed amidst the countless cells of crumbling house walls, and broke along the foot of the city wall in a surf of bramble and holly and ivy and teazle and tall grasses. When the Sleeper Wakes
- By dint of sheer sturdiness of arms, legs, and lungs, keeping true time with the pant and the shout, steadily goes it with hoist and haul, and cheerily undulates the melody of call that rallies them all with a strong will together, until the steep bluff and the burden of the bulk by masculine labor are conquered, and a long row of powerful pinnaces displayed, as a mounted battery, against the fishful sea. Mary Anerley
- Some of them had steep, smooth walls that plunged into the sandy bottom, others undulated downwards.