AGRISE

  

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AGRISE

Definitions: AGRISE

AGRISE

Intransitive verb

1. To shudder with terror; to tremble with fear.

Transitive verb

1. To terrify; to affright.

2. To shudder at; to abhor; to dread; to loathe.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "AGRISE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Anagrams: AGRISE

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sagier.

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-r-s"

-1 letter: aegis, agers, arise, gears, rages, ragis, raise, sager, sarge, serai.

-2 letters: ager, ages, airs, ares, arse, ears, egis, eras, ergs, gaes, gars, gear, gies, ires, rage, ragi, rags, rase, regs, reis, rias, rigs, rise, sage, sari, sear, sera, sire.

-3 letters: age, air, ais, are, ars, ear, era, erg, ers, gae, gar, gas, gie, ire, rag, ras, reg, rei, res, ria, rig, sae, sag, sea, seg, sei, ser, sir, sri.

-4 letters: ae, ag, ai, ar, as, er, es, is, re, si.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-r-s"
 

+1 letter: aigrets, earings, earwigs, erasing, gainers, gaiters, gassier, gisarme, glaires, gravies, hegaris, hegiras, imagers, mirages, raggies, reagins, regains, reginas, rivages, saggier, seagirt, searing, seringa, stagier, triages.

 

+2 letters: abridges, aginners, agrestic, aligners, anergias, anergies, angaries, angriest, arginase, argosies, argufies, armigers, assigner, astringe, auguries, bearings, brigades, cigarets, creasing, deraigns, disagree, disgrace, earnings, earrings, engrails, engrains, epigrams, ergastic, frigates, gambiers, ganister, gantries, garigues, garpikes, gasalier, gaselier, gasifier, gasolier, gearings, gesneria, gharries, giraffes, girasole, gisarmes, glaciers, glariest, glassier, glaziers, graciles, gradines, grainers, granites, grannies, grapiest, grassier, graziers, greasier, greasily, greasing, gremials, grimaces, hagrides, hearings, hearsing, ingrates, magister, migrates, misgrade, nargiles, organise, primages, ragtimes, rangiest, readings, realigns, reassign, reimages, resawing, resaying, sabering, seraglio, seringas, shaggier, shearing, signaler, slaggier, slangier, smearing, snaggier, spearing, staggier, sterigma, sugarier, swearing, synergia, vagaries, vinegars, viragoes, virgates.

 

+3 letters: abridgers, agentries, aggrieves, aigrettes, algerines, allergies, allergins, allergist, almsgiver, ambergris, angriness, answering, arginases, arginines, argufiers, armigeros, arpeggios, arresting, ashlering, aspersing, asserting, assigners, astringed, astringes, bagpipers, beggaries, bigarades, birdcages, braggiest, breakings, breasting, caressing, carriages, clearings, craggiest, cribbages, decigrams, dialogers, disagreed, disagrees, discharge, disgraced, disgracer, disgraces, disparage, disregard, draggiest, draglines, drainages, driftages, emigrants, emigrates, ensnaring, epigraphs, escarping, estraying, farseeing, ferriages, figeaters, filagrees, finaglers, firefangs, fruitages, gainsayer, gallerias, galleries, ganisters, gannister, gardenias, garfishes, garnished, garnishee, garnishes, gasaliers, gaseliers, gasifiers, gasoliers, gauderies, gauntries, gearshift, geranials, geraniols, geraniums, gerardias, gesneriad, ghastlier, giftwares, girasoles, glairiest, glamorise, glissader, gnarliest, gouramies, grabbiest, gradients, graecizes, grainiest, gramaries, granaries, grandiose, grandsire, graperies, graphites, grapiness, graplines, grassiest, grasslike, gratifies, gratinees, graveside, gravities, greasiest, grievants, grillades, grillages, grimacers, grisaille, guaranies, guerillas, hangfires, heritages, ideograms, imageries, imaginers, ingathers, integrals, irrigates, jaggaries, jaggeries, kashering, lawgivers, layerings, learnings, ligatures, litharges, magisters, maligners, malingers, marriages, mastering, measuring, midranges, migraines, mischarge, misgraded, misgrades, narghiles, nargilehs, orangiest, organdies, organised, organiser, organises, organizes, ossifrage, parridges, pillagers, preassign, presaging, progerias, quagmires, ranginess, ravelings, ravenings, ravigotes, realising, reasoning, reassigns, recasting, regainers, regionals, registrar, rehashing, relapsing, releasing, repassing, repasting, reraising, resailing, rescaling, resealing, reseating, reshaping, reshaving, reslating, resoaking, respacing, respading, restaging, restating, retasting, rewashing, sacrilege, saggering, salesgirl, saxifrage, scraggier, scraighed, screaking, screaming, scrimmage, seafaring, searching, searingly, seraglios, seriating, serigraph, serrating, shearings, shearling, shrinkage, signalers, signaller, signature, slavering, spanglier, spreading, sterigmas, stingaree, strategic, streaking, streaming, sugariest, synergias, thirlages, tragedies, trapesing, triangles, umpirages, verbiages, vicarages, villagers, vintagers, vulgarise, waggeries, waterings, wigmakers, yearlings, yearnings.

 

+4 letters: aborigines, absterging, addressing, aerologies, aggrandise, aggressing, aggression, aggressive, agrimonies, agrologies, agronomies, algebraist, allegories, allegorise, allegorist, allergists, almsgivers, angiosperm, anglerfish, aragonites, arbitrages, areologies, argentines, argentites, argillites, armigerous, asparagine, asperating, aspergilla, aspergilli, astringent, aubergines, bargainers, besmearing, beswarming, breathings, bricolages, brigadiers, burglaries, caregivers, carpetings, cartilages, cartridges, cashiering, categories, categorise, centigrams, cigarettes, ciguateras, clearwings, coarsening, cragginess, crevassing, curtilages, daringness, decreasing, degreasing, denigrates, designator, despairing, desugaring, disarrange, discharged, dischargee, discharger, discharges, discourage, disgracers, disparaged, disparager, disparages, disregards, earthlings, engravings, ensnarling, epigastric, epiphragms, estranging, estreating, faggotries, farsighted, fiberglass, fibreglass, fireguards, freebasing, gabardines, gaberdines, gadgetries, gainsayers, gannisters, garishness, garnisheed, garnishees, garnitures, garrisoned, gatherings, gaucheries, gearshifts, generalise, generalist, geriatrics, germaniums, germanizes, germinates, gesneriads, giardiases, gingersnap, girandoles, glamorised, glamorises, glamorizes, glazieries, glissaders, glossaries, gormandise, graininess, gramercies, gramineous, grandsires, grangerism, granulites, grapevines, graphemics, graticules, gratitudes, gratuities, gravesides, gravitases, gravitates, grayfishes, greasiness, greenmails, gregarines, gregarious, grenadiers, grenadines, grievances, grisailles, guaranties, guerrillas, gynandries, gynarchies, gyniatries, hagberries, harbingers, hardenings, harnessing, harshening, harvesting, headspring, hermitages, hoarsening, ideographs, ignorances, immigrates, increasing, integrands, integrates, interstage, irregulars, isografted, jaggheries, jargonizes, kingmakers, languisher, lawyerings, legalizers, legislator, lethargies, lifeguards, litterbags, magistrate, magnifiers, margarines, margarites, marginates, marketings, megasporic, menageries, mischarged, mischarges, misgrafted, mishearing, misreading, morganites, neuralgias, neuroglias, nightmares, omniranges, orangeries, organisers, organizers, organzines, originates, ossifrages, oversaving, paganizers, panegyrics, panegyrist, papergirls, paregorics, parentings, pargylines, partridges, pellagrins, persiflage, persuading, pilferages, pingrasses, plagiaries, plagiarise, plastering, pleasuring, preassigns, precasting, prepasting, preshaping, presoaking, pretasting, prewashing, purgatives, ragpickers, ravellings, reaccusing, rearousing, reasonings, reassigned, reassuming, reassuring, reclasping, recoinages, regalities, registrant, registrars, regnancies, rehearings, rehearsing, reimagines, rephrasing, rereadings, resaddling, resaluting, resampling, resinating, resonating, respeaking, respraying, restacking, restaffing, restamping, restarting, retailings, ribgrasses, rigmaroles, ringhalses, ringmaster, rosemaling, sacrileges, salesgirls, sanderling, saprogenic, sauntering, savageries, saxifrages, scampering, scarpering, scattering, scraggiest, scragglier, scrimmaged, scrimmager, scrimmages, seaborgium, seafarings, seignorage, seignorial, seismogram, separating, serenading, serigraphs, serigraphy, shanghaier, sharpening, shattering, shearlings, shrinkages, signallers, signatures, slabbering, slandering, slathering, smaragdine, smaragdite, smartening, smattering, spattering, springhead, staggering, stammering, starveling, steamering, sterigmata, stewarding, stingarees, stragglier, straighted, straighten, straighter, strategies, strategist, strategize, stravaiged, streakings, streamings, supergiant, surceasing, swaggering, tailgaters, tangerines, tragedians, transgenic, traversing, treasuring, treillages, trialogues, unswearing, vagrancies, variegates, vernissage, vinegarish, vulgarised, vulgarises, vulgarizes, wanderings, wingspread.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AGRISE


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

41 47 52 49 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)

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

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

01000001 01000111 01010010 01001001 01010011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0047 0052 0049 0053 0045

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

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

354152435339

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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