CARESSED

Definition: CARESSED

CARESSED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Caress

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "CARESSED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Endearment	Caressed; Verb:
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: CARESSED

English words defined with "CARESSED": caress. (references)

Specialty definitions using "CARESSED": U'na. (references)

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	Over the skin of silk are scars from the splinters of stations and walls I've caressed. A stage is like each bolt of wood, like a log of Helen, is my pleasure. ("Babelogue"; performing artist: Patti Smith)
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	In their calamity, to be served, is to be caressed.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	He wanted to be held firmly in her arms, to be caressed slowly, slowly, slowly.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	That minister had always been my secret enemy, though he outwardly caressed me more than was usual to the moroseness of his nature.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"CARESSED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "CARESSED" is used about 147 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)	85.71%	126	28,512
Lexical Verb (past participle)	13.61%	20	78,262
Noun (proper)	0.68%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	147	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "CARESSED": much-caressed.
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Language		Translations for "CARESSED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		爱抚 (Caress, Caressing). (various references)

French		caressai, caressés, caressâmes, caressèrent. (various references)

German		liebkoste (fondled). (various references)

Korean		� 무하�". (various references)

Pig Latin		aressedcay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"CARESSED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arassed, Cabessal, carassed, caresse, Carissa, carossel, carrozza, corossed, Cressid, Karezza. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-r-s-s"
	-1 letter: creased, creases, decares, resedas, screeds.
	-2 letters: cadres, caress, carses, ceased, ceases, cedars, ceders, cessed, crases, crease, creeds, decare, erased, erases, escars, recess, reseda, sacred, sarees, scared, scares, screed, screes, seared, seders, seracs.
	-3 letters: acred, acres, aedes, arced, arses, assed, cades, cadre, cards, cared, cares, carse, cased, cases, cease, cedar, ceder, cedes, cered, ceres.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-r-s-s"
	+1 letter: ascenders, crevassed, decreases, reascends, surceased.
	+2 letters: desecrates, escaladers, fricasseed, leadscrews, reductases, sacredness, scareheads, semisacred.
	+3 letters: acridnesses, coatdresses, crabbedness, descrambles, desecraters, desecrators, dischargees, escadrilles, predeceases, screenlands, secondaries, secularised.
	+4 letters: accessorised, accessorized, accursedness, archdioceses, contredanses, desacralizes, descramblers, desecrations, disseverance, merchandises, quadricepses, rancidnesses, reclassified, relandscapes, resuscitated, sacrednesses, sclerodermas, underclasses.
	+5 letters: archduchesses, barefacedness, comradeliness, considerables, cordialnesses, crabbednesses, deconsecrates, discrepancies, disenchanters, disseverances, merchandisers, predischarges, radicalnesses, secondariness, underclassmen, undersurfaces.
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