copulate

• POS: Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: cop=u=late

CIDE DICTIONARY

copulate, a. [L. copulatus, p. p. of copulare to couple, fr. copula. See Copula.].

•  Joined; associated; coupled.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]
•  Joining subject and predicate; copulative.  F. A. March.  [1913 Webster]

copulate, v. i. 

 To unite in sexual intercourse; to come together in the act of generation.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

copulate, v.intr. (often foll. by with) have sexual intercourse.

Derivative

copulatory adj.

Etymology

L copulare fasten together (as COPULA)

THESAURUS

copulate

accouple, accumulate, agglutinate, amass, articulate, assemble, associate, ball, band, be intimate, beget, bill and coo, bond, bracket, breed, breed true, bridge, bridge over, bunch, bunch up, cement, chain, clap together, clot, cluster, cohabit, collect, combine, come together, commit adultery, comprise, concatenate, conglobulate, congregate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, converge, couple, cover, crossbreed, crowd, dally, date, diddle, embrace, encompass, engender, father, flock together, flow together, forgather, fornicate, frig, fuse, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, generate, get, glue, have sex, have sexual relations, herd together, hive, horde, huddle, inbreed, include, join, knot, lay, lay together, league, lie with, link, lollygag, lump together, make it with, make love, make out, marry, marshal, mass, mate, meet, merge, mill, mobilize, mother, mount, multiply, muster, neck, outbreed, pair, pet, piece together, procreate, proliferate, propagate, put together, rally, rally around, rendezvous, reproduce in kind, roll into one, screw, seethe, serve, service, sire, sleep with, smooch, solder, span, splice, spoon, stick together, stream, surge, swarm, sweet-talk, take in, tape, throng, tie, toy, trifle, unify, unite, wanton, weld, whisper sweet nothings, yoke

ROGET THESAURUS

copulate

Sexuality

VB mate, copulate, make love, have intercourse, fornicate, have sex, do it, sleep together, fuck, sleep around, play the field, masturbate, jerk off, jack off, play with oneself, have the hots, become aroused, get hot, have an erection, get it up, come, climax, ejaculate.