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Noun geminate has 1 sense

geminate - a doubled or long consonant; "the `n' in `thinness' is a geminate"
--₁ is a kind of consonant

Verb geminate has 4 senses

reduplicate, geminate - form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word"
--₁ is one way to duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
pair, geminate - occur in pairs
--₂ is one way to occur
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
pair, geminate - arrange in pairs; "Pair these numbers"
--₃ is one way to arrange, set up
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
geminate - arrange or combine in pairs; "The consonants are geminated in these words"
--₄ is one way to double, duplicate

Derived form: noun gemination₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something