Salivate

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  • intransitive verb. To secrete or produce saliva.
  • intransitive verb. To be full of desire or eagerness for something.
  • intransitive verb. To produce excessive salivation in.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To purge by the salivary glands; produce an unusual secretion and discharge of saliva in, usually by the action of mercury; produce ptyalism in.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To produce saliva.
  • verb. To show eager anticipation at the expectation of something.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. produce saliva
  • verb. be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something
  • Word Usage
    "Thus if the spoils of desktop browser wars was the soul of the Internet, then the coming war will be for the soft, pliant heart of the social web; it all comes down to distribution and sticky eyeballs synapsed to clicky-clicky fingers over which advertisers and their kin salivate and jerk off."
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    drool  
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    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    covet  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ptyalize  spite  
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