Decrepitate

  

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Decrepitate

Definitions: Decrepitate

Decrepitate

Verb

1. Undergo decrepitation.

2. To roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops; of salts.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Decrepitate

DomainDefinitions

Mining

A. To roast or calcine (as salt) so as to cause crackling or until crackling stops b. A mineral is said to decrepitate when it flies to pieces with acrackling noise on being heated. (references)

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

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Crosswords: Decrepitate

English words defined with "decrepitate": Decrepitated, Decrepitating. (references)
Specialty definitions using "decrepitate": knistersalze. (references)

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Modern Translations: Decrepitate

Language Translations for "decrepitate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pjek (bake, calcinate, fire, grill, ripen, roast). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فقع, ‏تفقع. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

декрепетирам. (various references)

   

Czech

  

sejít vìkem. (various references)

   

Danish

  

betegnelse for et led i oparbejdning af salt (to decrepitate). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

dekrepitoida (to decrepitate). (various references)

   

French

  

décrépiter (to decrepitate), se décrépiter. (various references)

   

German

  

dekrepitieren (to decrepitate). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αφυδάτωση με θέρμανση (to decrepitate). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pattog (crackle, sparkle, to crackle). (various references)

   

Italian

  

decrepitare (to decrepitate). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ecrepitateday

   

Portuguese

  

decrepitar, crepitar (crepitate, crisp, fizz, rattle, snap, splutter, sputter, to decrepitate), calcinar (ash, calcinate, calcine, incinerate, mineralize, roast, to burn). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

trosni (clack, crack, crackle, grit, snap), pocni în foc, calcina (burn, roast). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

обжигать (anneal, bake, burn, calcinate, char, parboil, torrefy), потрескивать на огне. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prepeći opeku. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

decrepitar (to decrepitate). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

torka vid hög temperatur (to decrepitate). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ateşte çatırdatmak, çatır çatır kavurmak. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Decrepitate

Derivations

Words beginning with "decrepitate": decrepitated, decrepitates. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Decrepitate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-i-p-r-t-t"

-1 letter: crepitated, depreciate.

-2 letters: crepitate, deprecate, predicate, receipted.

-3 letters: carpeted, citrated, decrepit, departee, depicter, detecter, earpiece, etcetera, iterated, pattered, picrated, preacted, precited, prettied, repeated, tetracid, tetradic.

-4 letters: adepter, ariette, attired, capered, catered, cattier, cerated, citrate, created, creepie, deciare, detract, dictate, diptera, erected, iterate, paretic, partied, partite, peatier, pectate, peracid, petered, pettier, picrate, pierced, pirated, precede, predate, predict, preedit, reacted, receipt, recited, retaped, tapered, tierced, tipcart, treated.

-5 letters: aeried, airted, apiece, attire, caried, carped, carpet, carted, catted, cattie, cerate, cerite, craped, crated, create, credit, creped, dearie, decare, deceit, decree, deeper, deicer, depart, depict, derate, detect, diaper, dieter, direct, ecarte, ideate, paired, pardee, pardie, parted, patted, pattee, patter, pattie, peaced, pedate, peered, peerie, perdie, pereia, petard, petite, petted, petter, pieced, piecer, pierce, pirate, pitted, prated, preact, priced, ratite, ratted, reaped, recede, recept, recipe, recite, redact, redate, redcap, rediae, redipt, reedit, repaid, repeat, retape, retied, retted, tarted, teared, teated, teeter, tercet, terete, tetrad, tierce, tiered, tipcat, tirade, traced, trepid, triced.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-i-p-r-t-t"
 

+1 letter: decrepitated, decrepitates.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Decrepitate


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

44 65 63 72 65 70 69 74 61 74 65

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)

-..    .    -.-.    .-.    .    .--.    ..    -    .-    -    .

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

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

01000100 01100101 01100011 01110010 01100101 01110000 01101001 01110100 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#101 &#99 &#114 &#101 &#112 &#105 &#116 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0065 0063 0072 0065 0070 0069 0074 0061 0074 0065

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

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

3871698471827586678671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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