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Definition: Ate |
AteNoun1. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Ate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Ate (2 syl.). Goddess of vengeance and mischief. This goddess was driven out of heaven, and took refuge among the sons of men. "With Atë by his side come not from hell, Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war." Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, iii. 1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Greek mythology, Ate was the daughter of Zeus and Eris, the personification of infatuation, discord, mischief and blind impulsiveness. She once got the better of Zeus and he threw her down from Mt. Olympus. She then wandered the earth wrecking havock on mortals. Behind her trailed her sisters, the Litae, who fixed what she broke.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ate."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Cannibalism is the act or practice of eating members of the same species, e.g. humans eating humans (sometimes called anthropophagy), or dogs eating dogs. Among humans this has been practiced by various tribal groups in the past in the Amazon Basin, Africa, Fiji, and New Guinea, usually in rituals connected to tribal warfare. The Chaco Canyon ruins of the Anasazi culture have been interpreted by some archaeologists as containing evidence of ritual cannibalism. Individual cases in other countries have been seen with mentally unstable persons, criminals, and, in unconfirmed rumors, by religious zealots. In America, the Donner party is a case of cannibalism due to hunger. In Ukraine, widespread cannibalism was common during the hungry years in the 1930s, but this horrible truth was kept secret until recently.
Non-human cannibalism
For some species, cannibalism under certain well-defined circumstances, such as the female black widow spider eating the male after mating, is believed to be a common, if not invariable, part of the life cycle. In vertebrates (except for many fish), cannibalism is not generally observed to be uniformly routine or widespread for any given species, but may develop in extremis such as captivity, or a desperate food shortage. For instance, a domestic sow may eat her newborn young, though this behavior has not been observed in the wild. It is also known that rabbits, mice, rats, or hamsters will eat their young if their nest is repeatedly threatened by predators. In some species adults are known to destroy and sometimes eat young of their species to whom they are not closely related--famously, the chimpanzees observed by Dr. Jane Goodall. Some of these observations have been questioned (for example by Stephen Jay Gould) as possible products of sloppy research. For example, while there are many observations of female praying mantises eating their mates after copulation, there are no known observations of this occurring in the wild; it has only been observed in captivity.
Cannibalism among humans
The accusation of cannibalism has historically been much more common than the act itself. During the years of British colonial expansion slavery was actually considered to be illegal, unless the people involved were so depraved that their conditions as slaves would be better than as free men. Demonstration of cannibalistic tendencies were considered evidence for this, and hence reports of cannibalism became widespread.Marvin Harris has analyzed cannibalism and other food taboos. He thinks that it was common among bands, but disappeared in the transition to states, the Aztecs being exception.
Other more contemporary reports have also been called into question. The well known case of mortuary cannibalism of the Fore tribe in New Guinea which resulted in the spread of the disease Kuru is well documented and not seriously questioned by modern anthropologists. This case, however, has also been questioned by those claiming that although post-mortem dismemberment was the practice during funeral rites, cannibalism was not. Marvin Harris theorizes that it happened during a famine period coincident with the arrival of Europeans and rationalized as a religious rite.
Fijian cannibalism is also generally accepted as historically factual.
The fictional history of Robinson Crusoe (fl. 1658-1695) described how the Caribs took their poor victims, and hit them with a mace. Paul Serre del Sagués, who was almost his contemporary, recorded the same of the Caribs of Costa Rica, but was more detailed: The victim was sacrificed by a blow to the back of their heads. Then the saman opened the chest by an obsidian knife, took the heart, and tasted it. Meanwhile his assistants cut up the body to eat it, and distributed grains of maize painted with blood as fetishes. (See Entierros Indígenas en Costa Rica in Revista de Costa Rica, Year III (San José, 1921: 71).
The cannibal name is a corruption of caribal, the Spanish word for Carib. Others (Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, Volume XIV, 1905: 451) claim that "Cannibal" meant "valiant man" in the language of the Caribs. Richard Hakluyt's Voyages introduced the word to English. Shakespeare transposed it, anagram-fashion, to name his monster servant in The Tempest 'Caliban'.
Cannibalism was quite common in each cardinal direction from Cocos Island. It was reported in Mexico, the flower wars of the Aztec Empire being the most massive manifestation of cannibalism. The friar Diego de Landa reported about Yucatan instances, Yucatan before and after the Conquest, translated from Relación de las cosas de Yucatan, 1566 (New York: Dover Publications, 1978: 4). Similarly, by Purchas from Popayan, Colombia, and from the Marquesas Islands of Polynesia, where man-eating was called long-pig (Alanna King, ed., Robert Louis Stevenson in the South Seas, London: Luzac Paragon House, 1987: 45-50). It is recorded about the natives of the captaincy of Seregipe in Brazil, They eat human flesh when they can get it, and if a woman miscarries devour the abortive immediately. If she goes her time out, she herself cuts the navel-string with a shell, which she boils along with the secondine, and eats them both. (See E. Bowen, 1747: 532.)
However, when about 1972, a medium-sized airplane crashed in the Andes near the border between Chile and Argentina, after several weeks of starvation and struggle for survival, the numerous survivors began to eat the body of the captain and others. Two men of the survivors of the airplane crash decided to venture down in the ice and snow, and finally saw a man with a horse, who helped to take them the a telephone. A military helicopter of Chile arrived and saved the rest of the people.
Cannibalism is known to have been practised by the participants of the First Crusade. Some of the crusaders fed on the bodies of their dead opponents after the capture of the Arab town of Ma’arat. It was also practised by foraging parties on the later stages of the march on Jerusalem. In both cases, it seems possible that it may have been due to a combination of causes; in addition to hunger, there was also the feverish state of mind of the crusaders, and perhaps a desire to terrorise their opponents. Some Crusaders refused to eat the bodies of fellow Christians, but were not adverse to eating the bodies of defeated Muslims.
Sir John Franklin's lost polar expedition and Donner Party of the American Westward Migration were example of human cannibalism.
Cannibalism also took place during the WWII siege of Leningrad. [1] [1] [1]
Cannibalism in Ukraine
In the 1930s, during the widespread hunger in Ukraine, cannibalism was very common. According to BBC, children were eaten by their parents, sposes sometimes killed each other for food. Some 9 million people died during the two worst years of hunger, but many deaths were actually due to cannibalism. Ukraine is still a country in the world with the highest number of living cannibals.
'Cannibalism' as cultural libel
A skeptical reading of unsubstantiated reports of cannibalism may identify a disproportionate rate of cases of cannibalism among cultures that are already otherwise despised. The 'Blood libel' that accused Jews of eating Christian children is merely the most notorious example. In antiquity, Greek reports of anthropophagi were related to distant, non-Hellenic barbarians, or else relegated in myth to the 'primitive' chthonic world that preceded the coming of the Olympian gods. In the modern world, such libels must be presented as 'reports' in order to be believed. In 1994, printed booklets reported that in a Yugoslavian concentration camp of Manjaca the Bosnian refugees were forced to eat each other's bodies. These reports await confirmation.External links
William Arens, The Man-Eating Myth (1979), downplays cannibalism as an approved, institutional form of behavior and argued that the description by one group of people of another people as cannibals is an ideological and rhetorical device to establish moral superiority over them.
- Harry J. Brown, 'Hans Staden among the Tupinambas.' A German shipwrecked among a Brazilian tribe made them famous for their cannibalism and cruelty, sensationally depicted in crude woodcuts (1557), in an early captivity narrative. 'Then they butchered the corpses of the vanquished enemies and cooked them on a wooden barbecue called a boucan, while old women dabbed their fingers in the fat dripping away from the flames, old men reclined contentedly in hammocks, and children played ball with the discarded heads and plucked out their eyes as if they were plucking cherries.' "These popular visual representations of Native Americans were shaped as much by political and religious conflicts in the Old World as by actual observations of the people of the New World." says Brown.
- Markman Ellis, "Crusoe, cannibalism and empire." Robinson Crusoe's fearful ruminations on cannibals, and Capt. Cook's reports of Maori cannibalism, which were convincing to many 18th and 19th century Europeans, though not to all modern anthropologists, set into the context of colonial empire-building.
Conversely, Montaigne's essay "Of cannibals" introduced a new multicultural note in European civilization. Montaigne wrote that "one calls 'barbarism' whatever he is not accustomed to."
Sexualized cannibalism (fantasies and real)
The wide use of the Internet has highlighted that thousands of people harbor sexualized cannibalistic fantasies. Discussion forums and user groups exist for the exchange of pictures and stories of such fantasies. Typically, people in such forums fantasize about eating being eaten by members of their sexually preferred gender. As such, the cannibalism fetish or paraphilia is one of the most extreme sexual fetishes.Rarely ever do such fetishes leave the realm of fantasies (aided by modern technology for photo modification or completely computer generated images). There have been extreme cases of real life sexualized cannibalism, such as those of the serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer, Sascha Spesiwtsew and Fritz Haarmann ("the Butcher of Hannover"). In December 2002, a highly unusual case was uncovered in the town of Rotenburg in Hessen, Germany. In 2001 Armin M., an 41-year-old computer administrator, had posted messages like his more recent ones (see messages) in Internet newsgroups on the subject of cannibalism, repeatedly looking for "a young Boy, between 18 and 25 y/o" to butcher. At least one of his requests was successful: Jürgen B., another computer administrator, offered himself to be slaughtered. The two men agreed on a meeting. Jürgen B. was, with his consent, killed and eaten by Armin M. Before killing him, Armin M. cut off his victim's penis, and the two men ate it together. The whole act was recorded on video.
This is not the first consensual killing mediated through the Internet, but it is the first such known case of consensual cannibalism.
The existing cases of sexualized cannibalism involved homosexuals to a disproportionate extent. Some observers have linked this to the higher likelihood of homosexuals to suppress their sexual urges. Armin M., for example, came from a conservative family, and in spite of having homosexual fantasies, had several unsuccessful heterosexual relationships.
Cannibal themes in myth
Whether modern humans ate the Neanderthals they undoubtedly killed is not proven. On a primitive level, ritually eating part of the slaughtered enemy is a way of assuming the life-spirit of the departed. In a funeral ritual this may also be done with a respected member of one's own clan, ensuring immortality. Cannibal ogresses appear in folklore around the world, the witch in 'Hansel and Gretel' being the most immediate example. On the mythological level the cannibal mother is magnified to a universal principal, such as the Hindu goddess Kali, the Black One. The opening of Hell, the Zoroastrian contribution to Western mythology, is a mouth. According to Catholic dogma, bread and wine are transubstantiated into Jesus Christ's real blood and flesh, which is then distributed by the priest to the faithful.
Cannibalism in fiction
Some examples of cannibalism in fiction are:
- Hannibal Lecter (of the Silence of the Lambs series of novels)
- Patrick Bateman (American Psycho).
See also:
- Androphagi
External links
- BBC article about German cannibalism case
- In Defence of Cannibalism. 1982 essay by philosopher Richard Routley which examines whether and under what circumstances (e.g. eating those who died from natural causes) cannibalism might be morally acceptable.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cannibalism."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ATE | Dutch | Afzonderlijke technische eenheid | Electrical Engineering, Physics |
ATE | English | Aluminum triethyl | N/A |
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| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We ate together (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.) When I was hungry, I ate. When I was tired, I slept (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth) I thought you guys just ate doughnuts (Die Hard; writing credit: Jeb Stuart) Evelyn! Your kid ate the line up (A League of Their Own; writing credit: Kim Wilson; Kelly Candaele) You ate pizza, you stole panties (Miss Congeniality; writing credit: Marc Lawrence; Katie Ford) | |
Lyrics | I ate the mushroom and I dance with the queen (Sunshine; performing artist: Aerosmith) Ate his head, thought it was a candy (What Would You Say; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band) I ate it up and spit it out. ("My Way"; performing artist: Frank Sinatra) My father said grace right before we all ate (Ain't No Place Like Home; performing artist: Prince) And you say that you already ate ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) La Huérfana de Ate (1930) Your Dog Ate My Lunch Mum (1908) Farley Mowat Ate My Brother (1996) Jennifer Ate (1994) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | M. Breschet. / Ate. Legrand. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Pogo]. If a pup is been ate, you gotta have a corpus delectable .. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Bishop who ate his boots. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Pelican after his meal" by Brendan Paxton Commentary: "Pelican after he ate his sand perch (small fish). to see his features without the darkness, open the fullsize :)." | "Mustard" by Guiga Müller Commentary: "Best mustard I've ever ate...it's swiss!." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Emily Dickinson | He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Who never ate his bread in sorrow, who never sat through the sorrowful nights weeping on his bed, he knows you not, you heavenly Powers. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | He ate it with beaming looks, that became gradually more gloomy, and were very blank indeed by the time he had finished |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He ate with the voracity of a starving man. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | There was a silence while he ate. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Casy sat on the ground beside the fire, feeding it broken pieces of board, pushing the long boards in as the flame ate off their ends |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I had a table placed upon the same at which her Majesty ate, just at her left elbow, and a chair to sit on. |
Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare | And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side, come hot from hell, Shall in these confines, with a monarch's voice, Cry 'Havoc |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | People often have an unpleasant reaction to something they ate and wonder if they have a food allergy. (references) | |
A few cases have occurred in the United States among persons who traveled to South America or ate contaminated food brought back by travelers. (references) | ||
The normal range for blood sugar is about 60 mg/dL (milligrams of glucose per deciliter of blood) to 120 mg/dL, depending on when a person last ate. In the fasting state, blood sugar can occasionally fall below 60 mg/dL and even to below 50 mg/dL and not indicate a serious abnormality or disease. (references) | ||
Minorities | Liberia | The rituals involved have been reported in some cases to entail eating body parts, and the underlying religious beliefs may be related to incidents during the civil war in which faction leaders sometimes ate (and in which one faction leader had himself filmed eating) body parts of former leaders of rival factions. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled. |
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| "Ate" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 97.67% of the time. "Ate" is used about 1,754 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 (past tense) | 97.67% | 1,713 | 4,897 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 1.42% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.63% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (common) | 0.28% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,754 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Containing "Ate": Radi-ate-veined. | |
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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. |
| Language | Translations for "Ate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | آيتى إلاهة إغريقية. (various references) | |
Chinese | 吃了. (various references) | |
Czech | min.èas od eat. (various references) | |
Farsi | خورد. (various references) | |
French | mangeai, mangeâmes, mangèrent. (various references) | |
German | aß (victualed), aßen. (various references) | |
Greek | έφαγα, αόρ. του eat. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kimar (eaten, erode, to corrode, to eat, to eat away, to erode, to fret), kiesz (eaten, to eat), étkezik (dine, eat, eaten, mess, to board, to dine, to eat, to fare, to take a meal). (various references) | |
Italian | mangiai. (various references) | |
Korean | 먹었다. (various references) | |
Manx | dee (plaything). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ateay.(various references) | |
Romanian | trecut de la eat. (various references) | |
Russian | от eat, есть (aye aye, eat, eaten, eating, take, there are, there been, there is been). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | proš. vreme od glagola eat. (various references) | |
Spanish | pret de eat, comi. (various references) | |
Swedish | åt (at, for, tight, to, towards). (various references) | |
Thai | กริยาช่อง 2 ของ eat. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 24, Verse 43 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai labwn enwpion autwn efagen |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et cum manducasset coram eis sumens reliquias dedit eis |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And þa he æt beforan him he nam þa lafa and him sealde |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne he hadde etun bifore hem, he took that that lefte, and yaf to hem; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he toke it and ate it before them. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he took it, and did eat before them. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he took it, and ate before them. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And before their eyes he took a meal. |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 24, Verse 43 |
| Cebuano | Ug kini gidawat ni Jesus ug iyang gikaon sa ilang atubangan. |
| Chinese | 他 接 過 來 、 在 他 們 面 前 喫 了 。 |
| Croatian | On uzme i pred njima pojede. |
| Danish | Og han tog det og spiste det for deres Øjne. |
| Dutch | En Hij nam het, en at het voor hun ogen. |
| Finnish | Ja hän otti ja söi heidän nähtensä. |
| French | Il en prit, et il mangea devant eux. |
| German | Und er nahm's und aß vor ihnen. |
| Haitian Creole | Li pran l', li manje l' devan je yo. |
| Hungarian | Melyeket elvõn, és elõttök evék. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Yesus mengambil ikan itu, lalu makan di depan mereka. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka Ia pun menyambut, lalu dimakan-Nya di hadapan mereka itu. |
| Korean | 받 으 사 그 앞 에 서 잡 수 시 더 라 |
| Maori | Na ka tango ia, a kainga ana e ia i to ratou aroaro. |
| Norwegian | og han tok det og åt for deres øine. |
| Portuguese | o qual ele tomou e comeu diante deles. |
| Rumanian | El le -a luat, wi a mkncat knaintea lor. |
| Shuar | Tura Jesus nuna achik niisha iimiainiamunman yuamiayi. |
| Swahili | Akakichukua, akala, wote wakimwona. |
| Swedish | och han tog det och åt därav i deras åsyn. |
| Uma | Nadoa-mi pai' nakoni', bona rahilo kabela-na-hawo kiu. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Ate": atechnic, atelectases, atelectasis, atelic, atelier, ateliers, atemoya, atemoyas, atemporal, ates. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Ate": abate, abbreviate, abdicate, ablate, ablegate, abnegate, abominate, abrogate, absquatulate, acaudate, accelerate, accentuate, acclimate, accommodate, acculturate, accumulate, accurate, acerate, acerbate, acervate, acetate, acetylate, acetylsalicylate, acidulate, acierate, acoelomate, acrylate, activate, actuate, acuate, aculeate, acuminate, acylate, adequate, adjudicate, administrate, adnate, adsorbate, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, aduncate, advocate, aerate, aestivate, affectionate, affiliate, affricate, agate, agglomerate, agglutinate. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Ate": abated, abatement, abatements, abater, abaters, abates, abbreviated, abbreviates, abdicated, abdicates, aberrated, ablated, ablates, ablegates, abnegated, abnegates, abominated, abominates, abrogated, abrogates, absquatulated, absquatulates, accelerated, accelerates, accentuated, accentuates, acclimated, acclimates, accommodated, accommodates, acculturated, acculturates, accumulated, accumulates, accurately, accurateness, accuratenesses, acerated, acerbated, acerbates, acetated, acetates, acetylated, acetylates, acetylsalicylates, acidulated, acidulates, acierated, acierates, acoelomates, acrylates. (additional references) | |
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"Ate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aae, aat, Aata, abte, acta, acte, actea, actem, actu, ade, adef, ae, Aej, aet, afe, afee, Afej, afta, afte, aften, aftet, ahe, ahta, ahte, Ahti, ahto, aie, aite, aje, akti, alte, altec, altoe, ame, Aoe, aote, apte, apti, Artee, artel, Artem, artep, ashe, asta, Aste, astec, astew, ata, atal, Atat, Atd, atec, ated, atee, atek, Atel, atem, aten, ateo, Atepo, ater, ates, ateu, atev, atex, ath, Athe, ati, atia, atie, Atik, atl, atle, atlee, atme, Atmel, ato, atoa, atoe, atog, atoh, atou, atox, atoy, atoz, Atq, atr, atre, atree, Atrex, ats, atta, atten, Attf, Attoh, attr, Attu, atu, atub, atue, atui, atuz, atv, atw, Atx, aty, atz, aue, auta, Autel, autem, Auten, avto, erate, Eratex, Etbe, ete, Eteq, eti, Ette, iate, iet, iteb, itec, iteg, iteo, itey, iti, itoe, Itte, oatee, ote, qte, utee, zate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Ate" (pronounced ā"t) |
| 2 | ā" t | abate, await, bait, Bate, berate, Cate, collate, conflate, conjugate, crate, create, date, debate, deflate, demodulate, desecrate, dictate, dilate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fete, freight, gait, gate, gestate, grate, great, hate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, intrastate, irate, late, lightweight, mate, misstate, multistate, negate, oblate, ornate, overrate, overweight, pate, plate, postdate, predate, procreate, prorate, rate, Recriminate, reflate, reinstate, relate, remunerate, restate, sate, sedate, skate, slate, spate, state, straight, Strait, Tate, trait, translate, underrate, update, upstate, wait, weight. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: eat, eta, tae, tea. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-t" | |
-1 letter: ae, at, et, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-t" | |
+1 letter: abet, ante, ates, bate, beat, beta, cate, date, east, eath, eats, etas, etna, fate, feat, feta, gate, geta, haet, hate, heat, late, mate, meat, meta, neat, pate, peat, rate, sate, seat, seta, tace, tael, take, tale, tame, tape, tare, tate, teak, teal, team, tear, teas, teat, tela, tepa, thae, toea, twae, zeta. | |
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