- salivate⇄salivate, verb, -vated,-vating.
- salivate⇄v.i. to secrete saliva.
Ex. [Pavlov] found that ... dogs ... would quite quickly associate the sound of the bell with food and soon the bell alone would cause them to salivate (J. A. V. Butler). - salivate⇄v.t. to produce an unusually large secretion of saliva in, as by the use of mercury.