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DISPONGE

Definition: DISPONGE

DISPONGE

Transitive verb

1. To sprinkle, as with water from a sponge.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DISPONGE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1607. (references)

Note: Disponge \Dis*ponge"\, transitive verb. [Prefix dis- sponge.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: DISPONGE

English words defined with "DISPONGE": Dispunge. (references)

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Anagrams: DISPONGE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: deposing.

Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-n-o-p-s"

-1 letter: dingoes, epigons, pigeons, pingoes, pongids, sponged.

-2 letters: deigns, design, dinges, dogies, doings, donsie, doping, dosing, epigon, genips, geoids, gipons, noised, onside, opined, opines, pengos, pigeon, pinged, pingos, pogies, poinds, poised, ponged, pongid, ponied, ponies, posing, signed, singed, sniped, soigne, spined, sponge.

-3 letters: deign, dines, dinge, dingo, dings, dipso, doges, dogie, doing, dongs, dopes.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-n-o-p-s"
 

+2 letters: depositing, despoiling, desponding, diphosgene, responding, signposted.

 

+3 letters: decomposing, depolishing, diphosgenes, dispeopling, outspeeding, outspending, pedogenesis, postediting, proceedings, redisposing, topdressing.

 

+4 letters: jeopardising, outspreading, overspending, paedogenesis, posteditings, predigestion, predisposing, redepositing, ropedancings, speedboating, topdressings.

 

+5 letters: corresponding, decompressing, diphthongizes, dispossessing, eavesdropping, misdeveloping, overspreading, predigestions, propagandizes, speedboatings, typefoundings, underexposing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DISPONGE


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

44 49 53 50 4F 4E 47 45

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 01001001 01010011 01010000 01001111 01001110 01000111 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#83 &#80 &#79 &#78 &#71 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0053 0050 004F 004E 0047 0045

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

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

3843535049484139

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INDEX

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


  

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