articulate
/ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/ verb B2- To make clear or effective.
- To speak clearly; to enunciate. · I wish he’d articulate his words more clearly.
- To explain; to put into words; to make something specific. · I like this painting, but I can’t articulate why.
- To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend. · an articulated bus
- To attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc. · Articulate that passage heavily.
- To form a joint or connect by joints. · The lower jaw articulates with the skull at the temporomandibular joint.
He/she/it articulates · Past articulated · Past participle articulated · -ing form articulating
Verb forms
- Base form
- articulate
- He/she/it
- articulates
- Past
- articulated
- Past participle
- articulated
- -ing form
- articulating
From the library
He was hardly articulate as he spoke of it.
So furious was he that he was hardly articulate, and when he did speak it was in a much broader and more Western dialect than any which we had heard from him in the morning.
Maximilian tried to speak, but he could articulate nothing; he staggered, and supported himself against the wainscot.
He wished to articulate a last farewell, but his tongue lay motionless and heavy in his throat, like a stone at the mouth of a sepulchre.
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