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syncopate

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syn⋅co⋅pate

  [sing-kuh-peyt, sin-]
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–verb (used with object), -pat⋅ed, -pat⋅ing.
1. Music.
a. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented.
b. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
2. Grammar. to contract (a word) by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in reducing Gloucester to Gloster.
Origin:
1595–1605; < ML syncopātus (ptp. of syncopāre to shorten by syncope). See syncope, -ate 1

Related forms:
syn⋅co⋅pa⋅tor, noun
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syn·co·pate   (sĭng'kə-pāt', sĭn'-)   
tr.v.   syn·co·pat·ed, syn·co·pat·ing, syn·co·pates

  1. Grammar To shorten (a word) by syncope.

  2. Music To modify (rhythm) by syncopation.


[Late Latin syncopāre, syncopāt-, from syncopē, syncope; see syncope.]
syn'co·pa'tor n.
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