Usually means: Curve in and out repeatedly.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word sinuate:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. sinuate: Merriam-Webster
  2. sinuate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sinuate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sinuate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sinuate: Vocabulary.com
  6. sinuate: Wordnik
  7. Sinuate: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. sinuate: Wiktionary
  9. sinuate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sinuate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sinuate: Dictionary.com
  12. Sinuate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. sinuate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. sinuate: Rhymezone
  15. Sinuate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. sinuate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. sinuate: FreeDictionary.org
  18. sinuate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. sinuate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. sinuate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. sinuate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sinuate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sinuate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sinuate)

verb:  To advance in wavy or curvy manner, to bend, to curve, to wind in and out
adjective:  sinuous
adjective:  Having wavy indentation on its border or edge.
adjective:  (mycology, of gills) Roughly the same height for most of its length, becoming much shallower and then curving back towards the stem before reaching the attachment point.

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