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Definition: Garnish |
GarnishNoun1. Something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration. 2. Any decoration added as a trimming or adornment. Verb1. Decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "garnish" was first used: sometime around 1380. (references) |
Note: Garnish \Gar"nish\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Garnished; Garnishing.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Garnish overlay with stones (2 Chr. 3:6), adorn (Rev. 21:19), deck with garlands (Matt. 23:29), furnish (12:44). In Job 26:13 (Heb. shiphrah, meaning "brightness"), "By his spirit the heavens are brightness" i.e., are bright, splendid, beautiful. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Literature | Garnish (g hard). Entrance-money, to be spent in drink, demanded by jailbirds of new-comers. In prison slang garnish means fetters, and garnish-money is money given for the "honour" of wearing fetters. The custom became obsolete with the reform of prisons. (French, garnissage, trimming, verb garnir, to decorate or adorn.) (See Fielding's and Smollett's novels.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | GARNISH. An entrance fee demanded by the old prisoners of one just committed to gaol. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: GarnishSynonyms: dress (v), trim (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adjunct | Noun: adjunct; addition, additament; additum, affix, appelidage, annexe, annex; augment, augmentation; increment, reinforcement, supernumerary, accessory, item; garnish, sauce; accompaniment; adjective, addendum; complement, supplement; continuation. |
Expenditure | Payment; pay; (remuneration); bribe; fee, footing, garnish; subsidy; tribute; contingent, quota; donation;. |
Ornament | Garnish, trim, dizen, bedizen, prink, prank; trick out, fig out; deck, bedeck, dight, bedight, array; begawd, dress, dress up; spangle, bespangle, powder; embroider, work; chase, emboss, fret, emblazon; illuminate; illustrate. |
Garnish, polish, varnish, French polish, veneer, japanning, lacquer. | |
Preparation | Elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture; (aid); hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue; infumate; maturate. equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust; (fit); put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Garnish |
| English words defined with "garnish": chervil, Chinese parsley, cilantro, common garden cress, common watercress, coral, coriander ♦ dry ♦ garden pepper cress, Garnishing, Garnishment ♦ -ish ♦ Lepidium sativum ♦ Nasturtium officinale ♦ pepper grass, pepperwort, purple onion ♦ red onion, Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum ♦ sweet cicely. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "garnish": BAKER, PIZZA, bar porter, bar runner, BARTENDER HELPER, BEVERAGE ♦ MEXICAN FOOD MAKER, HAND ♦ SANDWICH MAKER, sandwich-counter attendant. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "garnish": Warnstore. (references) |
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Screenplays | We're just going to garnish your salary (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Clever | If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages? (references; author: unknown) | |
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(9) color slides show eggs cooked three different ways. (3) two cooked eggs (over easy?) with a salsa garnish, (1) two cooked eggs (over easy?) with a side serving of salsa, (1) two cooked eggs (over easy?) with a parsley garnish, (3) plate of scrambled eggs, (1) omelette with a strawberry garnish. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). | (1) color slide shows a tall glass of iced tea with a slice of lemon for garnish. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). | ||
A brown-beige-white plate sits on a sand-colored table. On the plate is cottage cheese, strawberries, kiwi fruit, cantaloupe, orange slices and rasberries. Next to the plate are 2 slices of dark bread and a multicolored napkin and a fork. There is a glass of iced tea in the background with lemon garnish. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). | From an overhead angle, bread, chinese cabbage, strawberry, grapes, brussels sprouts and a leaf garnish are shown on a white patterned table. On a purple napkin above the food, white lettering reads: "Healthy eating may reduce your risk of some kinds of cancer". Shot on 4x5 format. This was used in the 1989 calendar "Eat for Good Health" December 1989. See artwork: PV-19. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). | ||
![]() | Significant figures of our time. 7. At a memorial dinner of The Gourmet Society, Garnish is posthumously awarded The Golden Fork, its highest honor, for his contribution to world cuisine. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Say to absent parents who aren't paying their child support, if you're not providing for your children, we'll garnish your wages, suspend your license, track you across state lines, and if necessary, make some of you work off what you owe. |
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| "Garnish" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 48.56% of the time. "Garnish" is used about 208 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 48.56% | 101 | 32,488 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 31.25% | 65 | 41,645 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 17.31% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (common) | 2.88% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 208 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "garnish": Garnish bolt ♦ garnish with truffles. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
garnish | 141 | vegetable garnish | 3 |
garnish wages | 28 | garnish tool | 3 |
food garnish | 23 | dfas.mil garnish | 2 |
dfas.mil garnish index.htm money | 12 | drink garnish | 2 |
fruit garnish | 7 | garnish kit | 2 |
b b b b contemporary craft foil garnish gold leaf mosaic supply tooling | 6 | garnish idea | 2 |
radish garnish | 6 | can garnish wages who | 2 |
angeles garnish los wages | 5 | garnish meat | 2 |
cocktail garnish | 4 | dessert garnish | 2 |
garnish newfoundland | 3 | garnish house | 2 |
garnish gibson | 3 | wage garnish | 2 |
garnish island | 3 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "garnish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | garniturë (decoration, embellishment, garniture, onlay, served vegetables), zbukuroj (adorn, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, bespangle, bespread, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, embroider, festoon, flatter, Flavor, flavour, gild the pill, glorify, inlay, intersperse, landscape, ornament, pink, prettify, set with, smarten up, stud, touch up, trap, trick out, trim, water down), zbukurim (adornment, beautifying, decoration, embellishment, embroidery, enrichment, fallal, festoon, finery, flower, garniture, glorification, inlay, marquetry, onlay, ornament, ornamentation, rosace, set off, titivation), vë garniturë. (various references) | |
Arabic | تابل للنكهة, زينة (adornment, embellishment, gaud, ornament, pompon, topping, trimming), زين يزخرف (adorn, balance, illustrate), زخرف (adorn, bedeck, deck, decorate, do, embellish, embellishment, emboss, embroider, enrich, flourish, grace, illuminate, illustrate, lard, ornament, ornamentation, string, trace, trick, trick out, trick up, trim), جمل (beautify, bedeck, camel, conclude, embellish, enhance, finalize, improve, ornament, outline, precis, prettify, pretty, refine, smarten, sum up, summarize, totalize, varnish). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | украсявам (adorn, array, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, embroider, enchase, enrich, flatter, glorify, grace, lard, ornament, prank, set, titivate, trim), украшение (adornment, bibelot, decoration, fallal, figuration, garniture, knick knack, ornament, ornamentation, set off, trimming), гарнирам (trim), гарнитура (dressing, fixings, furniture, garniture, set, suite, trimming), налагам запор (attach). (various references) | |
Chinese | 装饰 (Adorn, Adorned, Adorning, Decking, decor, Decorate, Decorated, Decorating, Decoration, Decorative, decoratively, Drape, Draped, Emblazon, Emblazoned, Emblazoning, Emboss, Embossed, Embossing, fringed, Fringing, garnished, Garnishing, latticed, Latticing, ornamental, ornamentally, Ornamented, Ornamenting). (various references) | |
Czech | vyšperkovat (embroider), ozdobit (adorn, decorate, embellish, trim), ozdoba (adornment, decorate, decoration, grace, ornament, topping, trim), obloha (blue, firmament, heavens, sky), obložit (overlay). (various references) | |
Danish | polstring (cushion, cushioning, lining, pad, padding, upholstery). (various references) | |
Dutch | garneren (fit out, trim), beslaan (become steamy, comprise, dim, fill, fit out, get blurred, get covered with, get dim, occupy, shoe, take, take up, trim), afzetten (amputate, amputation, depose, deposit, deprive, dismiss, fit out, fleece, put off, shut off, stop, switch off, take off, trim, turn off). (various references) | |
Esperanto | garni (fit out, trim). (various references) | |
Faeroese | pynta (fit out, trim). (various references) | |
Farsi | چاشنی زدن(بخوراک), چاشنی زدن به (Flavor, Sauce), ارایش دادن (Able, Adorn, Beautify, Decorate, Embellish, Lard, Plume), ارایش (Array, Attire, Decor, Muster, Order, Polish, Toilet). (various references) | |
Finnish | koristaa (adorn, decorate, trim). (various references) | |
French | garnir. (various references) | |
German | garnieren (decorate, fit out, to garnish, trim), verzieren (adorn, decorate, embellish, emblazon, fit out, ornament, ornamentation, to stud, trim). (various references) | |
Greek | στόλισμα (decoration, garniture), στολίζω (adorn, array, attire, beautify, bespangle, caparison, deck, decorate, doll, doll up, embellish, ornament, perk, prank, prim, primp, prink, titivate, tog, trim), γέμιση καθίσματος (lining, upholstery), εσωτερική επένδυση καθίσματος (lining, upholstery), διακοσμώ (blazon, deck, decorate). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לקשט (adorn, deck, decorate, fringe, ornament, trick out, trick up, trim), לעטר מאכל, קשוט (adornment, decoration, Garland, jewel, ornament, ornamentation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | körítés (garden sauce, trimmings), szóvirág (flourish, flowers of speech, frills, trimming), stílusbeli cifraság, köret (garden sauce). (various references) | |
Indonesian | hiasan (decor, decoration, embellishment). (various references) | |
Italian | guarnizione (decoration, garnishment, gasket, join, joint, seal, sealing gasket, topping, trimming), guarnitura interna (lining, upholstery), guarnire (decorate, dress, ornament, trim), ornare (adorn, bedeck, decorate, embellish, ornament), contorno (boundary, contour, edge, fixing, outline, side dish). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 添える (to accompany, to add to, to annex, to append, to attach, to garnish, to imitate), 副える (to accompany, to add to, to annex, to append, to attach, to garnish, to imitate), 差し押さえる (to attach goods, to garnish, to impound, to seize), 差し押える (to attach goods, to garnish, to impound, to seize), つなぎ目 (a joint, a link, all-night Mah Jongg, aloof, altogether, at all, beyond doubt, certainly, complaining, entirely, extra-high-speed Touhoku-line shinkansen, feeling awkward, gleaming, going long way at steady pace, morose, nitpicking, pointed, sauce for dipping tempura, slippery, smooth, sound of walking, surely, tie-together point, to pitchforward, trudgingly). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そえる (to accompany, to add to, to annex, to append, to attach, to garnish, to imitate), さしおさえる (to attach goods, to garnish, to impound, to seize), つま . (various references) | |
Manx | jesheenaghey (adorn, adornment, bedeck, decorate, dress, embellish, emblazon, painting, painting trade, prank, preen, renovation, set, titivate). (various references) | |
Norwegian | garnering, garnere, pynte. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arnishgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | guarnecer (face, fit out, fringe, line, revet, rig, stock, trim). (various references) | |
Romanian | garnisi (fit out, set, trim). (various references) | |
Russian | украшение (adorner, adornment, beautification, decoration, embellishment, fallal, fal-lal, knick knack, molding, moulding, ornament, ornamentation, prettification, set off, trim), украшать (adorn, beautify, bedeck, deck, decorate, decorating, embellish, gild, ornament, prettify, set off), гарнировать, гарнир (dressing, garniture, side dish, side-dish). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | garnirung, garnirati (trim), ukrasiti (adorn, array, decorate, emblazon, enchase, illuminate, ornament, trim), ukras (adornment, decoration, fallal, flourish, ornament). (various references) | |
Spanish | guarnición (equipment, facing, garniture, garrison, guard, packing, trim, trimming), guarnecer (garnishee, garrison, line, pack, trim), guarnecedor (garnishee, trimmer), tapicería (seating, tapestry, upholstery), poner adornos (garnishee), belleza (beauty, garnishee, lovely, pulchritude), adorno (adornment, deck, decoration, dedication, fixture, garnishee, motif, ornament, trimming), adornar (adorn, array, bedeck, decorate, doll up, embellish, embroider, festoon, garnishee, grace, hang, lard, ornament, set off, set out, titivate, trap, trim), aderezo (garnishee, seasoning, set), aderezar (dress, garnishee). (various references) | |
Swedish | pryda (adorn, array, bedeck, deck, decorate, drape, embellish, enrich, glorify, grace, ornament). (various references) | |
Thai | เครื่องตกแต่ง (embellishment), ประ"ับ (embellish, enrich, ornament). (various references) | |
Turkish | garnitürlemek, garnitür (fixings, garniture, jardiniere, side dish, side order, trimming), süslemek (adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, bedight, caparison, crown, damask, deck out, decorate, dike, dizen, doll out, doll up, dress, dress up, embellish, embroider, enamel, enrich, fancy up, fig out, figure, flourish, gild, gird, grace, interlard, lace, lard, ornament, prank, prank out, prank up, rig, scrimshaw, set, smarten, tart up, tire, titivate, trick out, trick up, trig out, trig up, trim, zing up, zip, zip up), süs (adornment, apparel, attire, decoration, embellishment, embroidery, encrustation, enrichment, facings, falbala, falbelo, fancy, finery, flamboyance, flourish, flower, frill, frippery, garnishment, garniture, get up, make up, ornament, ornamental, ornamentation, scrimshaw, setoff, setout, trim, trimming), haczetmek (attach, confiscate, distrain, distrain on, distrain up, distress, garnishee, impound, levy, seise, sequester, sequestrate, vest), allayyıp pullamak, çeşni (flavour, medley, offflavour, relish, seasoning, spice, taste, zest). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гарнірувати, гарнір (garniture), оздоба (ornament), прикраса (adornment, apparel, attire, beauty, bijou, decking, decoration, embellishment, embroidery, fallal, garniture, Nick nack, ornament, outset, pretty, quip, set off), прикрашати (adorn, apparel, beautify, bedeck, bespread, brighten, caparison, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, dress out, embellish, embroider, flatter, gloss over, grace, needle, ornament, ornamentalize, prettify, set forth, smug, sugar coat, trim, trim up, varnish). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | orna, ornabant, ornabatur, ornaberis, ornabit, ornanda, ornandam, ornandum, ornant, ornantes, ornare, ornaret, ornasti, ornat, ornata, ornatam, ornati, ornatis, ornato, ornatu, ornatum, ornaturum, ornatus, ornaverunt, ornavi, ornavit, ornent. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 23, Verse 29 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ouai umin grammateiV kai farisaioi upokritai oti oikodomeite touV tafouV twn profhtwn kai kosmeite ta mnhmeia twn dikaiwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Vae vobis scribae et Pharisaei hypocritae quia aedificatis sepulchra prophetarum et ornatis monumenta iustorum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Wa eow bokeres & farisei liceteras.ge þe tymbrieð witegene byregene. & glencgað rihtwisere ge-mynd-stowe. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Wo to you, scribis and Farisees, ipocritis, that bilden sepulcris of profetis, and maken faire the birielis of iust men, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Wo be vnto you Scribes and Pharises ypocrites: ye bylde the tombes of the Prophetes and garnisshe the sepulchres of the righteous |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you put up buildings for housing the dead bodies of the prophets, and make fair the last resting-places of good men, and say, |
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| Language | Matthew Chapter 23, Verse 29 |
| Cebuano | "Alaut kamo, mga escriba ug mga Fariseo, mga maut! kay ginabuhatan ninyog mga pantiyon ang mga profeta ug inyong ginadayandayanan ang mga bungdo sa mga matarung, |
| Croatian | "Jao vama, pismoznanci i farizeji! Licemjeri! Gradite grobnice prorocima i kitite spomenike pravednicima |
| Danish | Ve eder, I skriftkloge og Farisæere, I Hyklere! thi I bygge Profeternes Grave og pryde de retfærdiges Gravsteder og sige: |
| Dutch | Wee u, gij Schriftgeleerden en Farizeen, gij geveinsden, want gij bouwt de graven der profeten op, en versiert de graftekenen der rechtvaardigen; |
| Finnish | ja sanotte: `Jos me olisimme eläneet isäimme päivinä, emme olisi olleet osallisia heidän kanssaan profeettain vereen`! |
| French | Malheur vous, scribes et pharisiens hypocrites! parce que vous bâtissez les tombeaux des prophètes et ornez les sépulcres des justes, |
| German | Weh euch, Schriftgelehrte und Pharisäer, ihr Heuchler, die ihr der Propheten Gräber bauet und schmücket der Gerechten Gräber |
| Haitian Creole | Malè pou nou, nou menm dirèktè lalwa ak farizyen, bann ipokrit! Gade, n'ap bati bèl tonm pou pwofèt yo, nou mete flè sou kavo moun ki te mache dwat devan Bondye yo. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Celakalah kalian guru-guru agama dan orang-orang Farisi! Kalian tukang berpura-pura! Kalian membangun makam-makam yang bagus untuk nabi-nabi, dan menghiasi tugu-tugu peringatan dari orang-orang yang hidupnya baik. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Wai bagi kamu, hai ahli Taurat dan orang Parisi, orang munafik! Karena kamu memperbuat kubur nabi-nabi, dan menghiasi nisan kubur orang benar. |
| Italian | Guai a voi, scribi e farisei ipocriti, che innalzate i sepolcri ai profeti e adornate le tombe dei giusti, |
| Latvian | Bçdas jums, rakstu mâcîtâji un farizeji, jûs liekuïi! Jûs ceïat kapenes pravieðiem un izrotâjat pieminekïus taisnîgajiem, |
| Manx Gaelic | Smerg diu scrudeyryn as Phariseeyn, chrauee oalsey, son dy vel shiu troggal oaiaghyn ny phadeyryn, as soiaghey magh lhiaghtyn ny deiney cairagh. |
| Maori | Aue, te mate mo koutou, e nga karaipi, e nga Parihi, e te hunga tinihanga? ko koutou nei hoki hei hanga i nga tanumanga o nga poropiti, hei whakapaipai i nga urupa o nga tangata tika, |
| Norwegian | Ve eder, I skriftlærde og fariseere, I hyklere, I som bygger profetenes graver og pryder de rettferdiges gravsteder og sier: |
| Rumanian | Vai de voi, cqrturari wi Farisei fqyarnici! Pentru cq voi zidiyi mormintele proorocilor, kmpodobiyi gropile celor neprihqniyi, |
| Russian | зПТЕ ЧБН, ЛОЙЦОЙЛЙ Й ЖБТЙУЕЙ, МЙ"ЕНЕТЩ, ЮФП УФТПЙФЕ ЗТП'ОЙ"Щ ТПТПЛБН Й ХЛТБЫБЕФЕ БНСФОЙЛЙ ТБЧЕ"ОЙЛПЧ, |
| Shuar | `Maa Wáinkiatarum jintinniutirmesha, Pariséutirmesha. Antrarum shiir chichamtiniaitrume. Yaunchu Yúsnan etserin iwiarsamunam átumka shiir Enentáimtakrum jea jeamkaitrume. Tura pénker shuar yaunchu Jákarusha shiir Enentáimturtaj tusarum ni iwiarsamu shiir awajearme. |
| Swedish | Ve eder, I skriftlärde och fariséer, I skrymtare, som byggen upp profeternas gravar och pryden de rättfärdigas grifter |
| Uma | "Silaka-koi, guru agama pai' to Parisi! Lompe' hi mali-na-wadi-koi! Nipenasa-damo mpakalompe' daeo' -ra nabi-nabi pai' tauna to monoa' owi. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "garnish": garnished, garnishee, garnisheed, garnisheeing, garnishees, garnishes, garnishing, garnishment, garnishments. (additional references) | |
Words containing "garnish": ungarnished. (additional references) | |
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"Garnish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ardnish, arnish, Gaineimh, Ganeesh, garmish, Garnacha, Garnasih, Garnath, garnes, garni, garnies, Gavrinis, Genrikh, glarnisch, goonish, gornisht, Granick, Granizo, Grannoch, Grannusch, Gransch, Gurnis, gurnish, Jaenisch. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "garnish" (pronounced gÄ"rnish) |
| 5 | -Ä" r n i sh | varnish. |
| 4 | -r n i sh | corniche. |
| 3 | -n i sh | admonish, astonish, banish, diminish, finish, minish, punish, refinish, replenish, vanish. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sharing. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: arshin, ashing, garish, grains, haring, rasing, shairn. | |
-2 letters: airns, gains, garni, girns, girsh, gnars, gnash, grain, grans, grins, hairs, hangs, naris, nighs, ragis, rains, ranis, rings, sangh, sarin, sharn. | |
-3 letters: agin, ains, airn, airs, anis, gain, gars, gash, ghis, gins, girn, gnar, gran, grin, hags, hair, hang, hins, hisn, nags, nigh, ragi, rags. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: archings, chagrins, crashing, harpings, hearings, hearsing, orangish, phrasing, ringhals, sharking, sharping, shearing, trashing. | |
+2 letters: ashlaring, ashlering, dragonish, farthings, garnished, garnishee, garnishes, hamstring, handgrips, hangbirds, hangfires, harassing, hiraganas, hoardings, ingathers, jargonish, kashering, longhairs, narghiles, nargilehs, nightjars, phrasings, ravishing, rehashing, reshaping, reshaving, rewashing, scarphing, searching, shearings, shearling, shrinkage, starching, thrashing. | |
+3 letters: anglerfish, aphorising, archaising, breathings, cashiering, crashingly, earthlings, garishness, garnisheed, garnishees, garnishing, gatherings, gynarchies, hairspring, hamstrings, handspring, harbingers, hardenings, harnessing, harshening, harvesting, headspring, hoarsening, kurbashing, languisher, marshaling, mishearing, nightmares, preshaping, prewashing, purchasing, rehearings, rehearsing, rephrasing, ringhalses, scraiching, scraighing, scratching, shanghaier, sharpening, shattering, shearlings, shikarring, shrinkages, slathering, springhead, straighten, stringhalt, tarnishing, thrashings, varnishing, vinegarish. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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