Crossword-Solution: SALIVATE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Salivate | v. t. | To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury. |
| Salivate | v. i. | To produce saliva, esp. in excess. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| SALIVATE | anagram | AESTIVAL, ETAVILAS, VESTALIA |
We have 34 clues for the answer “SALIVATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| produce saliva | 1 answer |
| Show great anticipation, informally | 1 answer |
| Show great anticipation | 1 answer |
| React like Pavlov's dogs | 1 answer |
| Pavlov's dogs were conditioned to do this | 1 answer |
| Have a Pavlovian response, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Drivel with hunger | 1 answer |
| Evince excitement | 1 answer |
| Emulate Pavlov's dog | 1 answer |
| Show eagerness | 3 answers |
| Show eager anticipation | 3 answers |
| Get ready for dinner | 6 answers |
| Conditioned reflex researcher | 10 answers |
| CONDITIONED ___ | 10 answers |
| CONDITIONED BY BATTLE | 10 answers |
| Expectorate | 20 answers |
| slaver | 23 answers |
| Slobber | 23 answers |
| splutter | 23 answers |
| body fluid | 26 answers |
| Vomit | 29 answers |
| Dribble | 30 answers |
| sputter | 32 answers |
| Spew | 36 answers |
| spit | 38 answers |
| Spurt | 38 answers |
| Ooze | 43 answers |
| Drip | 43 answers |
| Drool | 47 answers |
| Scatter | 48 answers |
| Emit | 48 answers |
| Disgorge | 50 answers |
| Spout | 60 answers |
| Gush | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SALIVATE (5)
But, tell me, why did you force me to shoot that gambler?" "He was a rascal, and cheated you." "I know; but I did not want his life; I am averse to bloodshed." "So I perceived, and that made me all the more determined you should salivate him.
But if they was a hundred we could keep 'em from makin' any time, an' if you'll burn the breeze some, you can have Barthman an' the others at the trail near Kinney's cañon before these guys get there!" "Hell's fire, Blackburn," protested Shorty; "ain't there somebody else can ride a damned horse? I'm aimin' to salivate some of them skunks!" "Orders is orders, Shorty," growled Blackburn, coldly.
Each of these fungi when taken by mistake will salivate profusely, and provoke both immoderate, and untimely laughter.
Those favorable seasons are frequently spoken of as being "white-clover years." While this plant furnishes good grazing for all kinds of domestic animals kept upon the farm, as a pasture for horses and mules, there is the objection to it that it will in a considerable degree so salivate them that much "slobbering" follows.
Pavlov's famous experiments which induced dogs to salivate when a bell was rung after previously having had food fed to them at the same time are examples of this type of conditioning.
Quotes with SALIVATE (3)
You are well aware of your effect on women, and I'm sure it gratifies you no end to watch them sigh and salivate over your magnificent physique. I do not wish to spoil your fun, Dain, but I do ask you to consider my pride and refrain from embarrassing me in public." Women... sighing and salivating... over his magnificent physique. Maybe the brutal bedding had destroyed a part of her brain.
In 1965, a psychologist named Martin Seligman started shocking dogs. He was trying to expand on the research of Pavlov--the guy who could make dogs salivate when they heard a bell ring. Seligman wanted to head in the other direction, and when he rang his bell, instead of providing food, he zapped the dogs with electricity. To keep them still, he restrained them in a harness during the experiment. After they were conditioned, he put these dogs in a big box with a little fence …
I swear, if I could eat my children, I would. I'd consume them like some beast in a Hieronymus Bosch painting, but in a friendlier, more momlike way. Their little bodies make me salivate. It takes everything I have not to swallow them whole.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1969–2023).