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machinate

[ mak-uh-neyt ]

verb (used with or without object)

machinated, machinating.
  1. to contrive or plot, especially artfully or with evil purpose:

    to machinate the overthrow of the government.



machinate

/ 藞m忙蕛-; 藞m忙k瑟藢ne瑟t /

verb

  1. usually tr to contrive, plan, or devise (schemes, plots, etc)
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞尘补肠丑颈藢苍补迟辞谤, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 尘补肠丑顎僫路苍补顎卼辞谤 noun
  • 耻苍路尘补肠丑顎僫路苍补迟顎卐诲 adjective
  • 耻苍路尘补肠丑顎僫路苍补迟顎卛苍驳 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of machinate1

First recorded in 1540鈥50; from Latin 尘腻肠丑颈苍腻迟耻蝉, past participle of 尘腻肠丑颈苍腻谤墨 鈥渢o invent, contrive, devise artfully鈥; machine, -ate 1
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of machinate1

C17: from Latin 尘腻肠丑颈苍腻谤墨 to plan, from 尘腻肠丑颈苍补 machine
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鈥淗e鈥檚 been in power, he鈥檚 clung to power, he鈥檚 machinated to stay in power for all these years, and he鈥檚 an ethno-nationalist,鈥 Levin, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said of Netanyahu.

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But college enrollment had exploded in the 鈥60s; there was now a mass audience eager to see itself in Benjamin, the 鈥済raduate鈥 who steals his life back from the machinating hypocrites.

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But my father, meanwhile, I didn鈥檛 know this at the time, was busy machinating on behalf of the United States to keep the oil flowing to the West.

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In an email, he wrote, 鈥淪ocial justice warriors machinate to get speakers canceled, and social networks purge conservatives, for the same reason: no-platforming works.鈥

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Ms. Johansson defended herself by arguing that the character 鈥渉as a human brain in an entirely machinate body,鈥 and said, 鈥淚 would never attempt to play a person of a different race, obviously.鈥

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