crenelate
Americanverb (used with object)
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of crenelate
1815–25; < French crénel ( er ) to crenelate ( see crenel) + -ate 1
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The material contains micrometer-scale gold crenelated structures positioned above an insulating layer and a semiconductor made from a mixture of indium and antimony.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
It shows a complex webbing of crenelated tubes connected to a mysterious mustard-colored box.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2024
This seaside respite on the Côte d’Azur was once a 17th-century soap factory yet looks like a castle thanks to a Scottish lord who, in the early 1900s, added turrets and crenelated ramparts.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
Unlike pancake-flat Delft, the Washington suburb where I live is a crenelated topo of rolling hills, such that if I rode anywhere I was sentencing myself to multiple back-breaking climbs just to get home.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2023
He spends the days of orientation rushing around campus, back and forth along the intersecting flagstone path, past the clock tower, and the turreted, crenelated buildings.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Engineers were at work, crenelating the walls and houses upon the side threatened with attack.
From The Young Franc Tireurs And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War by F. T. Young
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