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Adjective graduated has 4 senses
  1. graduated, proportional - increasing as the amount taxed increases
    Antonym: regressive (indirect, via progressive)
  2. calibrated, graduated - marked with or divided into degrees; "a calibrated thermometer"
  3. graduated - decreasing as the amount taxed increases
    Antonym:     progressive (indirect, via regressive)
  4. gradational, gradatory, graduated - slowly and smoothly
    Antonym: sudden (indirect, via gradual)
,Verb graduate has 3 senses
  1. graduate - receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies; "She graduated in 1990"
    --1 is one way to     receive, have
    Derived forms: noun graduation2, noun graduation1, noun graduate1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
  2. graduate - confer an academic degree upon; "This school graduates 2,000 students each year"
    --2 is one way to     confer, bestow
    Derived forms: noun graduation2, noun graduation1, noun graduate1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
  3. calibrate, graduate, fine-tune - make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder"
    --3 is one way to adjust, set, correct
    Derived forms: noun graduation3, noun graduate2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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