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DEHORT

Definition: DEHORT

DEHORT

Transitive verb

1. To urge to abstain or refrain; to dissuade.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DEHORT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Note: Dehort \De*hort"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Dehorted; present participle verb or noun Dehorting.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: DEHORT

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Dissuasion

Verb: dissuade, dehort, cry out against, remonstrate, expostulate, warn, contraindicate.

Warning

Verb: warn, caution; forewarn, prewarn; admonish, premonish; give notice, give warning, dehort; menace; (threaten); put on one's guard; sound the alarm; croak.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: DEHORT

English words defined with "DEHORT": Dehortatory, Dehorted, Dehorting. (references)

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Modern Translations: DEHORT

Language Translations for "DEHORT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Manx

  

coyrlaghey noi (dissuade). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ehortday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: DEHORT

Derivations

Words beginning with "DEHORT": dehorted, dehorting, dehorts. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: DEHORT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-h-o-r-t"

-1 letter: doeth, doter, horde, other, throe, trode.

-2 letters: doer, dore, dote, doth, herd, hero, hoed, hoer, ohed, redo, rode, rote, thro, toed, tore, trod.

-3 letters: doe, dor, dot, edh, eth, her, het, hod, hoe, hot, ode, ore, ort, red, ret, rho, rod, roe, rot, ted, the, tho, tod, toe, tor.

-4 letters: de, do, ed, eh, er, et, he, ho, od, oe, oh, or, re, to.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-h-o-r-t"
 

+1 letter: dehorts, frothed, shorted, theroid, thorned, throned, torched, trothed, worthed.

 

+2 letters: authored, bothered, chordate, chortled, crotched, dehorted, dethrone, exhorted, goatherd, hectored, mothered, outheard, pothered, potsherd, theropod, threnode, threnody, throated, throbbed, thronged, thyreoid, tochered, trophied.

 

+3 letters: atrophied, bethorned, betrothed, brothered, charioted, chondrite, chordates, crocheted, dehorting, dethroned, dethroner, dethrones, doughtier, dowitcher, drouthier, endotherm, enthroned, erythroid, euthyroid, goatherds, godfather, godmother, handwrote, heartwood, heterodox, holstered, hotdogger, hysteroid, inthroned, octahedra, outrushed, overhated, potholder, potsherds, reclothed, retouched, rhodolite, rhodonite, rhytidome, shortened, smothered, studhorse, theorised, theorized, theropods, threefold, threnodes, threnodic, threshold, throttled, trihedron, undershot, unthroned.

 

+4 letters: achondrite, authorised, authorized, betrotheds, broadsheet, chondrites, coauthored, dehydrator, dethroners, dethroning, dichromate, dogcatcher, dowitchers, droughtier, drouthiest, earthbound, editorship, endotherms, endothermy, fatherhood, godfathers, godmothers, headstrong, heartwoods, heterodoxy, heterodyne, homeported, hotdoggers, hotpressed, hydrometer, hydrophyte, motherhood, motherland, octahedral, octahedron, orthodoxes, orthograde, orthopedic, otherworld, outcharged, outcharmed, outhomered, outhumored, outmarched, outreached, outwhirled, overheated, overhunted, parenthood, potholders, priesthood, prohibited, pyrethroid, resmoothed, rheumatoid, rhodolites, rhodonites, rhytidomes, ricocheted, scouthered, scrootched, shortbread, sisterhood, studhorses, tetrachord, threadworm, threnodies, threnodist, thresholds, thunderous, toolholder, trihedrons, undershoot, whiteboard, withholder.

 

+5 letters: achondrites, arthrodeses, arthrodesis, atmosphered, autographed, bichromated, broadsheets, brotherhood, camphorated, chlorinated, coldhearted, copyrighted, dehydration, dehydrators, diaphoretic, diarthroses, dichromates, diphtheroid, dogcatchers, downhearted, dreadnought, droughtiest, dystrophies, editorships, endothermic, endotrophic, fatherhoods, foresighted, forgathered, goddaughter, godfathered, grandmother, groundsheet, hardmouthed, heldentenor, heterodyned, heterodynes, heteroploid, homesteader, hydrogenate, hydrolysate, hydrolyzate, hydrometeor, hydrometers, hydrometric, hydrophytes, hydroxylate, ironhearted, leatherwood, lionhearted, micromethod, motherboard, motherhoods, motherlands, mothproofed, neoorthodox, netherworld, octahedrons, openhearted, orthodoxies, orthopaedic, orthopedics, orthopedist, otherworlds, outpreached, outthrobbed, overlighted, overmatched, overnighted, parenthoods, pentahedron, photoperiod, photoreduce, pitchforked, priesthoods, prophethood, pyrethroids, reenthroned, rehydration, rhinestoned, ricochetted, servanthood, shortbreads, shorthaired, shorthanded, sisterhoods, softhearted, stadtholder, stakeholder, stallholder, stockholder, tetrachords, tetrahedron, thermoduric, threadworms, threnodists, thunderbolt, titleholder, toddlerhood, toolholders, truncheoned, typographed, underbought, undergrowth, undershoots, undershorts, unretouched, upholstered, urochordate, whiteboards, withholders.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DEHORT


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

44 45 48 4F 52 54

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)

01000100 01000101 01001000 01001111 01010010 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#72 &#79 &#82 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0048 004F 0052 0054

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

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

383942495254

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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