aviate
[ey-vee-eyt, av-ee-]
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, skirtExamples from the Web for aviate
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 ConductJohn Dewey
It is not quite clear in my mind even now why things in my immediate vicinity did not start to aviate.
Down the YellowstoneLewis 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 LandGordon Stuart
aviate
verb
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