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Definitions: PERSTRINGE |
PERSTRINGETransitive verb1. To criticise; to touch upon. 2. To touch; to graze; to glance on. |
Etymology: Perstringe \Per*stringe"\, transitive verb. [Latin expression perstringere; per stringere to bind up, to touch upon.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Attention | Examine cursorily; glance at, glance upon, glance over; cast the eyes over, pass the eyes over; run over, turn over the leaves, dip into, perstringe; skim; (neglect); take a cursory view of. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-n-p-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: peregrins, pestering. | |
-2 letters: gentries, inserter, integers, peregrin, petering, prerinse, prestige, printers, reesting, register, reinsert, reinters, rentiers, repiners, reprints, resigner, respring, restring, ripeners, speering, springer, sprinter, steeping, steering, stringer, terrines. | |
-3 letters: entires, entries, erepsin, gerents, greisen, gripers, integer, peering, penster, perries, pestier, pingers, preeing, present, prester, printer, prisere, pterins, regents, regrets, reinter, renters, rentier. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-n-p-r-r-s-t" | |
+2 letters: enterprising, peregrinates, prestressing, replastering, representing. | |
+3 letters: interspersing, perseverating, premarketings, retrospecting. | |
+4 letters: peregrinations, prefigurements, preregistering, presterilizing, primogenitures, reupholstering, stereographing, supererogation, unenterprising. | |
+5 letters: antiprogressive, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, preregistration, supererogations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 45 52 53 54 52 49 4E 47 45 |
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