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undulated

/verb uhn-juh-leyt, uhn-dyuh-, -duh-; adjective uhn-juh-lit, -leyt, uhn-dyuh-, -duh-/US // verb ˈʌn dʒəˌleɪt, ˈʌn dyə-, -də-; adjective ˈʌn dʒə lɪt, -ˌleɪt, ˈʌn dyə-, -də- //UK // (ˈʌndjʊˌleɪt) //

起伏的,波状的,波状,起伏不定的

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v.无主动词 verb
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    un·du·lat·ed, un·du·lat·ing.

    • : to move with a sinuous or wavelike motion; display a smooth rising-and-falling or side-to-side alternation of movement: The flag undulates in the breeze.
    • : to have a wavy form or surface; bend with successive curves in alternate directions.
    • : to rise and fall in pitch: the wail of a siren undulating in the distance.
v.有主动词 verb
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    un·du·lat·ed, un·du·lat·ing.

    • : to cause to move in waves.
    • : to give a wavy form to.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : Also un·du·lat·ed. having a wavelike or rippled form, surface, edge, etc.; wavy.

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Examples

  • When I scolded him, he undulated his silly yellow body, sprang upon his hind legs, and licked my hands.

  • After a breathless ascent of at least eight hundred feet, they reached the undulated, barren, rocky surface of a plateau.

  • It was an ample plain, whose colour was as yet indistinct, but which here and there undulated like the dunes of the seashore.

  • The outline of life, which changes under every respiration, seems to have undulated under the plastic mould of Phidias.

  • Argentine, a silvery-white slaty variety of calc-spar, containing a little silica with lamin usually undulated.