Home › Words › A › atterrateatterrate/əˈtɛɹeɪt/atterrate means to fill up with alluvial earth.atterrate is pronounced /əˈtɛɹeɪt/.EtymologyFrom Italian atterrare. Compare Late Latin atterrare (“to cast to earth”).verbTo fill up with alluvial earth.e.g.“The rain doth[…]atterrate or add part of the sea to the firm land” — 1738, John Ray, Travels Through the Low Countries:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.atterration 78% match — The act of filling up with earth, or of forming land with alluvial earth. vs atterrate →alluviate 71% match — To fill or cover with alluvium. vs atterrate →alluvium 60% match — soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain vs atterrate →aggrade 60% match — to raise the level of a river bed by the deposition of sediment vs atterrate →aggerate 59% match — To heap up. vs atterrate →inearth 58% match — To put into the earth; inter. vs atterrate →alluvial 58% match — Pertaining to the soil deposited by a stream. vs atterrate →bedirt 58% match — To cover or defile with dirt. vs atterrate →