different between alliterate vs alliterated

alliterate

English

Etymology

Back-formation from alliteration.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /??l?.t?.?e?t/

Verb

alliterate (third-person singular simple present alliterates, present participle alliterating, simple past and past participle alliterated)

  1. (intransitive) To exhibit alliteration.
  2. (transitive) To use (a word or sound) so as to make alliteration.
    • 1888, George Theodore Dippold, Richard Wagner's Poem the Ring of the Nibelung: Explained and in Part Translated
      It is a strophe of six lines, of which the first and second and the fourth and fifth belong together, while the third and sixth are independently alliterated.

Synonyms

  • (exhibit alliteration): alliterize

Translations

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alliterated

English

Verb

alliterated

  1. simple past tense and past participle of alliterate

alliterated From the web:

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