duplicate

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of DUPLICATE

to make an exact likeness of <art students trying to duplicate paintings in the museum's collection as part of their training>

Synonyms clone, copycat, duplicate, imitate, reduplicate, render, replicate, reproduce

Related Words counterfeit, fake, forge, knock off, rip off; mimic, simulate; reconstruct, re-create

Near Antonyms create, imagine, initiate, invent

Antonyms originate

to make or do again <we were unable to duplicate the experiment in our own lab, so we're suspicious>

Synonyms duplicate, redo, reduplicate, reiterate, remake, renew, replicate, reprise

Related Words recreate, reenact, reinvent

to make twice as great or as many <the recipe can be easily duplicated in order to feed a large family>

Synonyms duplicate, redouble

Related Words compound, multiply; accumulate, balloon, build (up), burgeon (also bourgeon), enlarge, escalate, expand, increase, mount, mushroom, proliferate, rise, snowball, swell, wax

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