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Definition: DIREPTION |
DIREPTIONNoun1. The act of plundering, despoiling, or snatching away. |
Etymology: Direption \Di*rep"tion\, noun. [Latin expression direptio, from diripere to tear asunder, plunder; di- dis- rapere to seize and carry off.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Stealing | Noun: stealing; Verb: theft, thievery, latrociny, direption; abstraction, appropriation; plagiary, plagiarism; autoplagiarism; latrocinium. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DIREPTION |
| English words defined with "DIREPTION": Direptitious. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "DIREPTION": Direptitious. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: perdition. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-n-o-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: dipteron, intrepid, pointier, retinoid. | |
-2 letters: dinitro, diopter, dioptre, diorite, edition, inditer, nitride, peridot, pointed, pointer, portend, printed, proteid, protein, protend, ripieno, riptide, tiderip, tropine. | |
-3 letters: deport, dinero, dipnet, dopier, dotier, editor, indite, iodine, ironed, nitrid, norite, opined, orient, orpine, period, pinder, pinier, pinite, pitied, pitier, podite, pointe, ponder, ponied, ported, protei, pterin, redipt. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-n-o-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: perditions, prediction. | |
+2 letters: deprivation, description, improvident, partitioned, predication, predictions, prenotified, repudiation, trepidation. | |
+3 letters: antiperiodic, depreciation, deprivations, descriptions, periodontics, periodontist, precondition, predications, predigestion, predilection, preinduction, profundities, providential, redepositing, repositioned, repudiations, trepidations. | |
+4 letters: decrepitation, depreciations, dinitrophenol, dryopithecine, endoparasitic, expeditionary, improvidently, nondisruptive, periodization, periodontists, preconditions, predigestions, predilections, predominating, predomination, preinductions, premeditation, preordination, propositioned, redescription, redisposition, reduplication, repartitioned, serendipitous, superaddition. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 49 52 45 50 54 49 4F 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. .-. . .--. - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001001 01010010 01000101 01010000 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D I R E P T I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0049 0052 0045 0050 0054 0049 004F 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)384352395054434948 |
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