confederate

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative forms 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.4 Adjective 1.4.1 Quotations 1.5 Verb 2 Italian 2.1 Adjective 2.2 Noun 2.3 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative forms

• confœderate (archaic)

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Noun

confederate (plural confederates)

1. a member of a confederacy
2. an accomplice in a plot
3. (psychology) An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher (also known as a 'stooge').

[edit] Adjective

confederate

1. of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
2. banded together; allied.

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• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Youth's Antiphony, lines 11-12

  Hour after hour, remote from the world's throng,

  Work, contest, fame, all life's confederate pleas

[edit] Verb

to confederate (third-person singular simple present confederates, present participle confederating, simple past and past participle confederated)

1. To combine into a confederacy.

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[edit] Italian

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confederate f.

1. Feminine plural form of confederato

[edit] Noun

confederate f.

1. Plural form of confederata.

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confederate

1. Second-person plural present tense of confederare.
2. Second-person plural imperative of confederare.
3. Feminine plural of confederato.