salivate

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And what makes us salivate is there's this huge installed base of facilities that really aren't being addressed by a globally competent contractor like Jacobs.

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  1. intransitive verb To secrete or produce saliva.
  2. intransitive verb Informal To be full of desire or eagerness for something: salivated at the idea of winning the lottery.
  3. transitive verb To produce excessive salivation in.

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  • Since its launch on Feb. 9, This Is Why You're Fat has made people all over the continent salivate, recoil in disgust, or both. —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • : Although executive bonuses at financial and other firms are under intense scrutiny, many of those who work in the Downtown Los Angeles Financial District just got a perk that might make those who received bailout money salivate.
  • The Dems have conditioned their followers to salivate with hatred whenever his name is mentioned like Pavlov's dogs. —  Latest Articles
  • "Seven courses of beef": four words that will either make you shudder or salivate.
  • That's not exactly giving up much punch as many had believed with Guy playing at safety, a place NFL scouts are gonna salivate watching him play. —  Kentucky Sports Radio
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin salīvāre, salīvāt-, from salīva, saliva.

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  1. from Latin salivatus, past participle of salivare (later Italian salivare = Spanish Portuguese Provencal salivar = French saliver), spit out, also salivate, from Latin saliva, spittle: see saliva.
 

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