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[syn: breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lactate \Lac"tate\, n. [L. lac, lactis, milk: cf. F. lactate.]
(Chem.)
A salt of lactic acid.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
lactate
n 1: a salt or ester of lactic acid
v 1: give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You
cannot nurse your baby in public in some places" [syn:
breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse,
lactate, give suck] [ant: bottlefeed]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "lactate":
aliment, breast-feed, dry-nurse, excrete, fatten, fatten up,
force-feed, foster, give out, nourish, nurse, nurture, nutrify,
produce, secern, secrete, stuff, suckle, tear, water, weep,
wet-nurse