DROWNING MEN

  

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DROWNING MEN

Specialty Definition: DROWNING MEN

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Drowning Men Drowning men catch at straws. Persons in desperate circumstances cling in hope to trifles wholly inadequate to rescue or even help them. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: DROWNING MEN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-m-n-n-n-o-r-w"

-2 letters: deworming, redonning, renowning, wondering.

-3 letters: dowering, drowning, endowing, mignonne.

-4 letters: demoing, denning, donning, downier, downing, droning, eroding, grinned, groined, ignored, ingrown, mendigo, mending, meowing, minored, morning, negroid, negroni, omening, redoing, redwing, rending, wendigo, wending, widgeon, wingmen, wonning, wording, worming, wringed, wronged.

-5 letters: dewing, deworm, dinero, dinger, dinner, domine, doming, dormie, dormin, dowing, downer, emodin.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DROWNING MEN


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

44 52 4F 57 4E 49 4E 47      4D 45 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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

01000100 01010010 01001111 01010111 01001110 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01001101 01000101 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#82 &#79 &#87 &#78 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#77 &#69 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 004F 0057 004E 0049 004E 0047      004D 0045 004E

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

38524957484348412473948

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