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MACHINATE
Definition of MACHINATE
verb
To devise a plot or secret plan; to conspire.
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Other senses
MACHINATE carries 4 further meanings.
intransitive verb
To devise (a scheme or plot).
intransitive verb
To scheme or plot.
To plan, contrive, or form, as a plot or scheme: as, to machinate mischief.
To lay plots or schemes.
Where it comes from
First attested in 1537; borrowed from Latin machinātus, perfect active participle of machinor (“to invent, devise; to scheme, plot”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from māchina (“machine, contrivance, device, scheme”), an early borrowing from Ancient Greek. See also machine.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.2%
of traced words share this origin (9,700)
branch · 12.2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MACHINATE · 2 relatives in the game
MACHINATE in a sentence
“Here, I had no buddies to carp with, no enemies to machinate against, only a father who never liked me, and now, didn't even know me.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MACHINATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 37 boards so far. 101 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 32, 21 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MACHINATE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AACEHIMNT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of MACHINATE. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start MACHIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 32
Could you have found MACHINATE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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