Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to librate
Participle: librated
Gerund: librating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | librate |
| you | librate |
| he;she;it | librates |
| we | librate |
| you | librate |
| they | librate |
Perfect
| I | have librated |
| you | have librated |
| he;she;it | has librated |
| we | have librated |
| you | have librated |
| they | have librated |
Past
| I | librated |
| you | librated |
| he;she;it | librated |
| we | librated |
| you | librated |
| they | librated |
Pluperfect
| I | had librated |
| you | had librated |
| he;she;it | had librated |
| we | had librated |
| you | had librated |
| they | had librated |
Future
| I | will librate |
| you | will librate |
| he;she;it | will librate |
| we | will librate |
| you | will librate |
| they | will librate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have librated |
| you | will have librated |
| he;she;it | will have librated |
| we | will have librated |
| you | will have librated |
| they | will have librated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | librate |
| you | librate |
| he;she;it | librate |
| we | librate |
| you | librate |
| they | librate |
Perfect
| I | have librated |
| you | have librated |
| he;she;it | have librated |
| we | have librated |
| you | have librated |
| they | have librated |
Imperfect
| I | librated |
| you | librated |
| he;she;it | librated |
| we | librated |
| you | librated |
| they | librated |
Pluperfect
| I | had librated |
| you | had librated |
| he;she;it | had librated |
| we | had librated |
| you | had librated |
| they | had librated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would librate |
| you | would librate |
| he;she;it | would librate |
| we | would librate |
| you | would librate |
| they | would librate |
Perfect
| I | would have librated |
| you | would have librated |
| he;she;it | would have librated |
| we | would have librated |
| you | would have librated |
| they | would have librated |
Imperative
| you | librate |
| we | Let's librate |
| you | librate |
Verbs conjugated like 'librate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'librate'
libate,
liberate,
vibrate,
calibrate,
citrate,
delibrate,
disrate,
evibrate,
labiate,
latrate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin lībrātus, perfect passive participle of lībrō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from lībra (“a balance”).
Sample Sentences
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Their parts all librate on too nice a beam. [1796, William Cliffton, The Group:]
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The currently observed orbital resonances at the 2:1 mean motion commensurabilities involving Io-Europa and Europa-Ganymede are such that the resonance variables #92;theta#95;1#61;#92;lambda#95;1-2#92;lambda#95;2#43;#92;omega#95;1 and #92;theta#95;3#61;#92;lambda#95;2-2#92;lambda#95;3#43;#92;omega#95;2 librate about 0° and #92;theta#95;2#61;#92;lambda#95;1-2#92;lambda#95;2#43;#92;omega#95;2 librates about 180°, all with small amplitude. [2002 October 18, S. J. Peale, Man Hoi Lee, “A Primordial Origin of the Laplace Relation Among the Galilean Satellites”, in Science, volume 298, number 5593, →DOI, page 594:]
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But she winds about him coil after coil of her glittering rhetoric, in which reason holds its own as it librates with specious feeling. [1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 168:]
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Her playful Sea-horse […] His watery way with waving volutes wins, / Or listening librates on unmoving fins. [1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 138:]