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ABSTERSE

Definition: ABSTERSE

ABSTERSE

Transitive verb

1. To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Absterse \Ab*sterse"\, transitive verb. To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913)

Modern Translations: ABSTERSE

Language Translations for "absterse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

absterseay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ABSTERSE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-r-s-s-t"

-1 letter: basters, beaters, berates, breasts, easters, rebates, reseats, searest, seaters, teasers, tessera.

-2 letters: aretes, assert, asters, barest, basest, basset, baster, bastes, beasts, beater, berate, berets, besets, breast, easter, eaters, erases, esters, rebate, reests, reseat, resets, sabers, sabres, sarees, seater, serest, stares, steers, steres, tabers, teaser, teases.

-3 letters: abets, arete, arses, asset, aster, bares, baser, bases, baste, basts, bates, bears, beast, beats, beers, beets, beret, beset, bests, betas, braes, brass, brats, brees, eases, easts, eater, erase, erses, ester, rases, rates, reest, reset, rests, saber, sabes, sabre, saree, sates, sears, seats, seers, seres, setae, stabs, stare, stars, steer, stere, taber, tabes, tares, tasse, tears, tease, terse, trass, trees, tress, tsars.

-4 letters: abet, arbs, ares, arse, arts, ates, bare, bars, base, bass, bast, bate, bats, bear, beat, beer, bees, beet, best, beta, bets, brae, bras, brat, bree, ears, ease, east, eats, eras, erst, eses, etas, rase, rate, rats, rebs, rees, rest, rete, rets, sabe, sabs, sate, sear, seas, seat, seer, sees, sera, sere, sers, seta, sets, stab, star, tabs, tare, tars, tass, tear, teas, tees, tree, tsar.

-5 letters: abs, arb, are, ars, art, ass, ate, bar, bas, bat, bee, bet, bra, ear, eat, era, ere, ers, ess, eta, ras, rat, reb, ree, res, ret, sab, sae, sat, sea, see, ser, set, tab, tae, tar, tas, tea, tee.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-r-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: absenters, absterges, arbelests.

 

+2 letters: basketries, bespatters, bestiaries, breathless, redbreasts, streambeds.

 

+3 letters: backstreets, blastomeres, breastbones, breathiness, broadsheets, establisher, hartebeests, reestablish, sweetbreads, sweetbriars.

 

+4 letters: abortiveness, abruptnesses, abstruseness, baptisteries, bathyspheres, benefactress, brainteasers, brattinesses, breadbaskets, breakfasters, breastplates, breaststroke, breathlessly, enterobiases, enterobiasis, establishers, houseboaters, obdurateness, preestablish, respectables, restabilizes, sabermetrics, sauerbratens, strawberries, subsecretary, subvarieties.

 

+5 letters: backstretches, bacteriolyses, blatherskites, breaststroker, breaststrokes, breathinesses, elaborateness, embarrassment, erasabilities, irritableness, observatories, presbyterates, presbyterials, reestablished, reestablishes, reusabilities, skateboarders, staggerbushes, subcategories, subliteracies, subterraneous, subtreasuries, supercabinets, tractableness, veritableness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ABSTERSE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 42 53 54 45 52 53 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -...    ...    -    .    .-.    ...    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000010 01010011 01010100 01000101 01010010 01010011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#66 &#83 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#83 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0042 0053 0054 0045 0052 0053 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3536535439525339

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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