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ADREAD

Definition: ADREAD

ADREAD

Intransitive & transitive verb

1. To dread.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ADREAD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1893. (references)

Note: Adread \A*dread"\, transitive and intransitive verb. [from Anglo-Saxon expression andr[ae]dan, ondr[ae]; prefix a- (for and against) dr[ae]den to dread. See Dread.]. (Websters 1913)



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Crosswords: ADREAD

Etymologies containing "ADREAD": Adrad. (references)

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Anagrams: ADREAD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-r"

-1 letter: adder, dared, dread, readd.

-2 letters: area, dada, dare, dead, dear, read, redd.

-3 letters: add, are, dad, ear, era, rad, red.

-4 letters: aa, ad, ae, ar, de, ed, er, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-d-e-r"
 

+1 letter: abraded, arcaded, awarded, deodara, paraded.

 

+2 letters: aggraded, daydream, deodaras, gradated, hardhead, hazarded, marauded, radiated, tabarded.

 

+3 letters: airheaded, andradite, andromeda, astraddle, daydreams, daydreamt, daytrader, deaerated, decahedra, diagramed, dreamland, eradiated, faradised, faradized, garlanded, graduated, hardheads, headboard, mansarded, marinaded, placarded, quadrated, radicated, readapted, readymade, redamaged, roadstead, unabraded, unawarded, verandaed.

 

+4 letters: admeasured, adumbrated, andradites, andromedas, balderdash, bandleader, barehanded, bareheaded, barricaded, breadboard, calendared, daydreamed, daydreamer, daytraders, deadpanner, degradable, demarcated, desiderata, diagrammed, disarrayed, disparaged, dragonhead, dramatised, dramatized, dreamlands, endocardia, eradicated, hardhanded, hardheaded, headboards, irradiated, misawarded, paradiddle, preadapted, railroaded, readymades, reradiated, roadsteads, scabbarded, taradiddle, tardigrade, verandahed.

 

+5 letters: addressable, adrenalized, adulterated, aggrandised, aggrandized, balustraded, bandleaders, barricadoed, bastardised, bastardized, breadboards, broadcasted, candidature, carbonadoed, clapboarded, clearheaded, daydreamers, daydreaming, deadpanners, deflagrated, degradation, degradative, deracinated, disappeared, disarranged, discardable, divaricated, dodecahedra, dragonheads, endocardial, engarlanded, gallbladder, grandaddies, hamadryades, handbreadth, handcrafted, hardhearted, imparadised, leaderboard, masqueraded, paddleboard, paradiddles, paradropped, paraldehyde, quadrupedal, radicalised, radicalized, revalidated, safeguarded, sandpapered, spearheaded, standardise, standardize, starboarded, taradiddles, tardigrades, tarradiddle, trademarked.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ADREAD


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

41 44 52 45 41 44

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)

01000001 01000100 01010010 01000101 01000001 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#68 &#82 &#69 &#65 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0044 0052 0045 0041 0044

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

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

353852393538

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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