PERSTRINGE

  

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PERSTRINGE

Definitions: PERSTRINGE

PERSTRINGE

Transitive verb

1. To criticise; to touch upon.

2. To touch; to graze; to glance on.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Perstringe \Per*stringe"\, transitive verb. [Latin expression perstringere; per stringere to bind up, to touch upon.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: PERSTRINGE

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Anagrams: PERSTRINGE

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PERSTRINGE


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

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