geminate(n = noun.communication) - a doubled or long consonant; "the `n' in `thinness' is a geminate"
is a kind of consonant

1.  geminate(v = verb.creation) reduplicate - form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word"
is one way to double, duplicate, reduplicate, repeat, replicate
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

2.  geminate(v = verb.contact) pair - occur in pairs;
is one way to occur
Sample sentences: Something ----s

3.  geminate(v = verb.contact) pair - arrange in pairs; "Pair these numbers"
is one way to arrange, set up
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

4.  geminate(v = verb.change) - arrange or combine in pairs; "The consonants are geminated in these words"
is one way to double, duplicate
Derived form noun gemination₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

   In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers. Gray. [1913 Webster]

   To double. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]

geminate, adj. & v.
--adj. combined in pairs.
--v.tr.
1 double, repeat.
2 arrange in pairs.

Derivative:
gemination n.

Etymology:
L geminatus past part. of geminare f. geminus twin

VB  double, redouble, duplicate, reduplicate, geminate, repeat, renew.