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EXULCERATE

Definition: EXULCERATE

EXULCERATE

Adjective

1. Very sore; ulcerated.

Intransitive & transitive verb

1. To corrode; to fret; to chafe; to inflame.

2. To ulcerate.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "EXULCERATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1671. (references)

 

Synonyms within Context: EXULCERATE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Deterioration

Deteriorate; weaken; put back, set back; taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate, pollute, vitiate, inquinate; debase, embase; denaturalize, denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate; stain; (dirt); discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Anagrams: EXULCERATE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-l-r-t-u-x"

-2 letters: axletree, excretal, execrate, executer, ulcerate.

-3 letters: exacter, exalter, excreta, excrete, execute, lecture, reelect, treacle.

-4 letters: acuter, cartel, cerate, cereal, claret, create, curate, curtal, cutler, ecarte, elater, eluate, luxate, rectal, relace, relate, reluct, tercel.

-5 letters: acute, alert, alter, arete, artel, caret, carex, carle, carte, cater, clear, cleat, crate, creel, cruel, cruet, culet, culex, curet, cuter.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-l-r-t-u-x"
 

+4 letters: counterexample.

 

+5 letters: counterexamples, recontextualize.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EXULCERATE


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

45 58 55 4C 43 45 52 41 54 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)

01000101 01011000 01010101 01001100 01000011 01000101 01010010 01000001 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

E X U L C E R A T E

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0058 0055 004C 0043 0045 0052 0041 0054 0045

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

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

39585546373952355439

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