Usually means: To make a buzzing sound.
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  2. bombilate: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Bombilate, bombilate: Dictionary.com
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  8. bombilate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  10. bombilate: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  11. Bombilate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. bombilate: FreeDictionary.org
  13. bombilate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. bombilate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Bombilate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ verb:  (rare) To hum or buzz.

Similar:
bombinate, buzz, hurr, bomb, buzzle, bumble, burr, zing, whirr, drone, more...

Opposite:
silence, quiet, stillness

Types:
flutter, flicker, flap, vibrate, oscillate, more...

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Similar:
bombinate, buzz, hurr, bomb, buzzle, bumble, burr, zing, whirr, drone, more...

Opposite:
silence, quiet, stillness

Types:
flutter, flicker, flap, vibrate, oscillate, more...



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