Crossword clues for alliterate
alliterate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alliterate \Al*lit"er*ate\, v. t.
To employ or place so as to make alliteration.
--Skeat.
Alliterate \Al*lit"er*ate\, v. i. To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to use alliteration," 1776 (implied in alliterated), back-formation from alliteration, on analogy of obliterate. Related: Alliterating.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To exhibit alliteration. 2 (context transitive English) To use (a word or sound) so as to make alliteration.
WordNet
v. use alliteration as a form of poetry
Usage examples of "alliterate".
Under the Constitution he has a right to alliterate just as much as any other American citizen.
My mom thought it sounded wrong with my last name, so she politicked for Amaranthit means the same but doesn't alliterate and it stuck.
Shined and polished and ready for duty: one-dish-devouring Spartans, nine against Thebes, at Leuthen, in Teutoburg Forest, the nine loyal stalwarts, the nine Swabians, nine brown swans, the last levy, the lost platoon, the rear guard, the advance guard, nine alliterated Burgundian noses: this is the sorrow of the Nibelungs in Eddi Etzel's snow-covered garden.
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When Sister Seventh began alliterating she could go on for hours without making any particular sense.