GRADUATED

To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.

Example: "The man graduated in 1967."

To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).

Example: "Trisha graduated college."

To certify (a student) as having earned a degree

Example: "Indiana university graduated the student."

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.

To change gradually.

Example: "Sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz"

To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.

Example: "To graduate the heat of an oven"

To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.

To taper, as the tail of certain birds.