graduate

1. (intransitive, ergative) To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.Examples: "The man graduated in 1967."; "Trisha graduated from college."; "After graduating from Princeton University, he earned a law degree in Canada, then worked as an environmental lawyer in Israel before settling on the south side of Youngstown."ergativeintransitive

2. (transitive, proscribed) To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).Examples: "Trisha graduated college."proscribedtransitive

3. (transitive) To certify (a student) as having earned a degreeExamples: "Indiana University graduated the student."; "The college graduated him as soon as he was no longer eligible to play under NCAA rules."transitive

4. (transitive) To mark (something) with degrees; to divide into regular steps or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.transitive

5. (intransitive) To change gradually.Examples: "As the species graduate into each other, both in form and in habits, from the grass-eating Geese to the fish-eating Harelds, it is difficult, […] to divide this large group into sections."; "Yadav, born Bharat Kalicharan, was a petty thief who had graduated to bigger crimes, terrorising Kasturba Nagar, on the edge of the city of Nagpur, in Maharashtra, from the 1990s until his death."; "sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz"intransitive

6. (chemistry) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.