Usually means: Applying sound waves to agitate.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. sonicate: Merriam-Webster
  2. sonicate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sonicate: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sonicate: Wordnik
  5. sonicate: Wiktionary
  6. sonicate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. sonicate: Dictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sonicate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. sonicate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. sonicate: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sonicate)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To disrupt with ultrasonic sound waves.

Similar:
ionize, dissonate, unsoothe, syncopise, disturb, assibilate, oxytonize, syncopize, syncopate, atomize, more...

Opposite:
unsound, quiet, still, silent, hushed

Adjectives:
whole, crude, bacterial, human, nuclear

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Similar:
ionize, dissonate, unsoothe, syncopise, disturb, assibilate, oxytonize, syncopize, syncopate, atomize, more...

Opposite:
unsound, quiet, still, silent, hushed

Adjectives:
whole, crude, bacterial, human, nuclear



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