aviate

[ey-vee-eyt, av-ee-]

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verb (used with or without object), a·vi·at·ed, a·vi·at·ing.

to fly or fly in an aircraft.

Origin of aviate

First recorded in 1885–90; back formation from aviation

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Related Words for aviate

shoot, float, glide, drift, travel, sail, reach, cross, flutter, swoop, climb, circle, operate, speed, rush, pilot, control, dash, skim, skirt

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Historical Examples of aviate

But in the same sense there is an impulse to aviate, to run a typewriter or write stories for magazines.
Human Nature and Conduct
John Dewey
It is not quite clear in my mind even now why things in my immediate vicinity did not start to aviate.
Down the Yellowstone
Lewis R. Freeman
"Now the next thing is for you to teach us all to aviate," laughed the southerner.
The Boy Scouts of the Air in Indian Land
Gordon Stuart

British Dictionary definitions for aviate

aviate

verb

to pilot or fly in an aircraft

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