Unscramble mating

Definition of mating

noun:

• the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents", "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring". Synonyms: conjugation, coupling, pairing, sexual union, union.

verb:

• engage in sexual intercourse; "Birds mate in the Spring". Synonyms: copulate, couple, mate, pair.
• bring two objects, ideas, or people together; "This fact is coupled to the other one", "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?", "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project". Synonyms: couple, match, mate, pair, twin.
• place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves". Synonyms: checkmate, mate.
• twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child entangled the cord". Synonyms: entangle, mat, snarl, tangle. Antonyms: disentangle, unsnarl.
• change texture so as to become matted and felt-like; "The fabric felted up after several washes". Synonyms: felt, felt up, mat, mat up, matt-up, matte, matte up.

Related words

bang, bed, bonk, breed, bugger, cover, cross, crossbreeding, crossing, deflower, eff, enmesh, ensnarl, felt, fuck, hump, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, inbreeding, interbreeding, jazz, know, love, mesh, mismatch, mismate, mount, nick, ride, ruin, screw, serve, service, servicing, sodomise, sodomize, tread.

Words nearby

dating, eating, making, matins, matting, rating.

Rhymes with

annotating, baiting, berating, dating, elating, equating, grating, overrating, plating, rating, skating, slating, updating, waiting, weighting.