Usually means: Produce saliva in anticipation, reflexively.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word salivate:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. salivate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. salivate: Merriam-Webster
  3. salivate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. salivate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. salivate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. salivate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Salivate, salivate: Wordnik
  8. salivate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. salivate: Wiktionary
  10. salivate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. salivate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. salivate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. salivate: Dictionary.com
  14. salivate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Salivate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Salivate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. salivate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. salivate: Rhymezone
  19. Salivate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. salivate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. salivate: FreeDictionary.org
  22. salivate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. salivate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. salivate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. salivate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. salivate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. salivate: Medical dictionary

(Note: See salivated as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To produce saliva.
verb:  (intransitive) To show eager anticipation at the expectation of something.

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