confederate

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[edit] English

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[edit] Noun

Singular
confederate

Plural
confederates

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.

[edit] Quotations

  • 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

Infinitive
to confederate

Third person singular
confederates

Simple past
confederated

Past participle
confederated

Present participle
confederating

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

  1. To combine into a confederacy.

[edit] Italian

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confederate f.

  1. Feminine plural form of confederato

[edit] Noun

confederate f.

  1. Plural form of confederata.

[edit] Verb

confederate

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