translate
verb (used with object)
to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own.
translated
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past participleof translate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof translate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
translateverb (used with object)to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own.
Example Sentences
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“Last Day of a Prior Life,” also translated by Ms. Dillman, is a somewhat more formal exercise—a classic ghost story joined to a psychological mystery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
For the study, a simple booklet called Easy Read: How is Myeloma Treated? was translated from English into Bengali twice—once by machine, and once by humans.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
Speaking in Welsh, she called them "brawychus" - roughly translated as "terrible" or "shocking".
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Their growing demographic weight, driven by a fertility rate of 6.5 children per woman, has translated into political influence.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
That could loosely be translated as “doctors who don’t quite know what they’re doing.”
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
