Washed-up

  

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Washed-up

Definition: Washed-up

Washed-up

Adjective

1. Doomed to extinction.

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


Synonyms: Washed-up

Synonyms: done for(p) (adj), ruined (adj), sunk (adj), undone (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Washed-up

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Is the dried-out, washed-up has-been having a moment? (I Know What You Did Last Summer; writing credit: Kevin Williamson)

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

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Usage Frequency: Washed-up

"Washed-up" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Washed-up" is used about 18 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%1882,615

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Washed-up

Language Translations for "washed-up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

洗涤 (Cleanse, Cleansed, Cleansing, Laundered, laundering, Wash, Washed, washed-out, washing-up). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

세척하ëŠ" 위로. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ashed-upway

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Washed-up

Misspellings

"Washed-up" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Wahidul. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Washed-up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-p-s-u-w"

-1 letter: pshawed.

-2 letters: hasped, pashed, paused, phased, pushed, shaped, shawed, washed, washup, whaups.

-3 letters: ashed, deash, dupes, ephas, hades, hawed, hawse, heads, heaps, pause, pawed, phase, pseud, pshaw, sadhe, sadhu, sawed, shade, shape, spade, spaed, spued, wades, whaps, whaup.

-4 letters: aped, apes, apse, awed, awes, dahs, daps, dash, daws, dews, dues, dupe, dups, edhs, epha.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Washed-up


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

57 61 73 68 65 64 2D 75 70

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

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

01010111 01100001 01110011 01101000 01100101 01100100 00101101 01110101 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#97 &#115 &#104 &#101 &#100 &#45 &#117 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0061 0073 0068 0065 0064 002D 0075 0070

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

576785747170158782

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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