gladiate adjective 1verb 1forms 5 adjective1 •Sword-shaped.The leaves of the iris and gladiolus are gladiate. verb1 •To fight as a gladiator, to digladiate.You could try and take us (oh, oh), but we're the gladiators (oh, oh) […] We gladiate, but I guess we're really fighting ourselves […] — 2013 formsgladiated · gladiating · gladiates · more gladiate · most gladiate