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Coup De Main

Definition: Coup De Main

Coup De Main

Noun

1. An attack without warning.

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

Specialty Definition: Coup De Main

Domain	Definition
Literature	Coup de Main (French). A sudden stroke; a stratagem whereby something is effected suddenly. Sometimes called a coup only, as "The coup [the scheme] did not answer." "London is not to be taken by a coup de main. "- Public Opinion. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Coup De Main

Synonym: surprise attack (n). (additional references)

Synonyms within Context: Coup De Main

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Action	Deed, act, overt act, stitch, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow; coup, coup de main, coup d'etat; tour de force; (display); feat, exploit; achievement; (completion); handiwork, workmanship; manufacture; stroke of policy; (plan).
Violence	Severity; ferocity, rage, fury; exacerbation, exasperation, malignity; fit, paroxysm; orgasm, climax, aphrodisia; force, brute force; outrage; coup de main; strain, shock, shog; spasm, convulsion, throe; hysterics, passion; (state of excitability).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Translation: Coup De Main

Language		Translations for "coup de main"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		merész támadás, hirtelen támadás (dash, raid). (various references)

Pig Latin		oupcay eday ainmay

Turkish		darbe (bash, beat, biff, blow, brunt, bump, chop, clip, clout, concussion, coup, coup d'etat, crusher, cut, dash, facer, finisher, hack, hit, ictus, impact, jolt, kayo, knock, pound, putsch, shock, smasher, stroke, thwack, whack, whammy), ani hücum. (various references)

Vietnamese		cuộc tập kích. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Coup De Main

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-m-n-o-p-u"
	-1 letter: companied, compendia.
	-2 letters: canopied, comedian, daemonic, demoniac, dopamine, pandemic.
	-3 letters: amidone, apnoeic, campion, codeina, compend, decuman, demonic, encomia, imponed, impound, miaoued, monacid, monadic, nomadic, panicum, pemican, pounced, pumiced, unaimed.
	-4 letters: acnode, acumen, aecium, aeonic, aidmen, anemic, anodic, anomic, anomie, apneic, camion, camped, canoed, cinema, codeia, codein, coined, comade, comped, conium, copied, couped, daemon, daimen.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-m-n-o-p-u"
	+3 letters: unaccompanied, uncomplicated.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams

5. Bibliography

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