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DISLIMB

Definition: DISLIMB

DISLIMB

Transitive verb

1. To tear limb from limb; to dismember.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Dislimb \Dis*limb"\, transitive verb. To tear limb from limb; to dismember. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: DISLIMB

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

Disjunction

Cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize; dislimb; take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces; tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb; divellicate; skin; disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband; disperse; dislocate, disjoint; break up; mince; comminute; (pulverize); apportion.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DISLIMB

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dislimb

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: DISLIMB

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-i-i-l-m-s"

-2 letters: imids, limbi, limbs, midis.

-3 letters: bids, dibs, dims, ibis, imid, libs, lids, limb, mibs, midi, mids, mild, mils, sild, slid, slim.

-4 letters: bid, bis, dib, dim, dis, ids, ism, lib, lid, lis, mib, mid, mil, mis, sib, sim.

-5 letters: bi, id, is, li, mi, si.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-i-i-l-m-s"
 

+1 letter: misbuild.

 

+2 letters: birdlimes, diabolism, misbilled, misbuilds, mobilised.

 

+3 letters: admissible, bipedalism, diabolisms.

 

+4 letters: bipedalisms, demobilizes, dissembling, misbelieved, misbuilding.

 

+5 letters: bimodalities, diminishable, inadmissible, inadmissibly, liquidambars.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DISLIMB


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

44 49 53 4C 49 4D 42

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000100 01001001 01010011 01001100 01001001 01001101 01000010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#83 &#76 &#73 &#77 &#66

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0053 004C 0049 004D 0042

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

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

38435346434736

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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