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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cudgel One's Brains (To). To make a painful effort to remember or understand something. The idea is from taking a stick to beat a dull boy under the notion that dulness is the result of temper or inattention. "Cudgel thy brains no more about it; for our dull ass will not mend his place with beating." - Shakespeare: Hamlet, v. 1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imagination | Set one's wits to work; strain one's invention, crack one's invention; rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, cudgel one's brains; excogitate; brainstorm. |
Thought | Rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, crack one's brains, beat one's brains, cudgel one's brains; set one's brain to work, set one's wits to work. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expression using "CUDGEL ONE'S BRAINS": To cudgel one's brains. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "CUDGEL ONE'S BRAINS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | lámat si hlavu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | töri a fejét (rack one's brains, to be up to no good, to cudgel one's brains, to puzzle, to puzzle one's brains, to rack one's brains, to set one's wits to work to), t (to cudgel one's brains). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | '悩ます (cudgel one's brains trying to find a solution, to rack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | udgelcay one'say ainsbray bry sin hjärna (be puzzled, puzzle, rack one's brains). (various references) kafa patlatmak (beat one's brains, ponder, puzzle, puzzle one's brains, puzzle one's head, puzzle over, rack one's brains, rack one's brains over, swot), üzerinde düşünmek (give thought to, ponder on, ponder over, ponder upon, pore on, pore upon, repose on, think over, view). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "'-a-b-c-d-e-e-g-i-l-n-n-o-r-s-s-u" | |
-4 letters: considerables, ribonucleases. | |
-5 letters: androgenesis, cladogenesis, considerable, crossbanding, debonairness, nonreusables, ribonuclease, undesirables. | |
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