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ENGRASP

Definition: ENGRASP

ENGRASP

Transitive verb

1. To grasp; to grip.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ENGRASP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Note: Engrasp \En*grasp"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Engrasped; present participle verb or noun Engrasping.]. (Websters 1913)



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Crosswords: ENGRASP

English words defined with "ENGRASP": Engrasped, Engrasping. (references)

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Anagrams: ENGRASP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-n-p-r-s"

-1 letter: angers, arpens, gapers, gasper, grapes, pagers, parges, prangs, ranges, sanger, sparge, sprang.

-2 letters: agers, anger, apers, apres, arpen, aspen, asper, earns, gaper, gapes, gears, gnars, grans, grape, grasp, napes, nares, neaps, nears, pager, pages, panes, pangs, pares, parge, parse, peags, peans, pears, prang, prase, presa, rages, range, rapes, reaps, regna, sager, saner, sarge, snare, sneap, spang, spare, spean, spear, sprag.

-3 letters: ager, ages, anes, aper, apes, apse, ares, arse, earn, ears, engs, eras, ergs, erns, gaen, gaes, gane, gape, gaps, gars, gasp, gear, gens, gnar, gran, nags, nape, naps, neap, near, page, pane, pang, pans, pare, pars, pase, peag, pean, pear, peas, pegs, pens, rage, rags, rang, rape, raps, rase, rasp, reap, regs, reps, sage, sane, sang, sear, sera, snag, snap, spae, span, spar.

-4 letters: age, ane, ape, are, ars, asp, ear, eng, ens, era, erg, ern, ers, gae, gan, gap, gar, gas, gen, nae, nag, nap, pan, par, pas, pea, peg, pen, per, pes, rag, ran, rap, ras, reg, rep, res, sae, sag, sap, sea, seg, sen, ser, spa.

-5 letters: ae, ag, an, ar, as, en, er, es, na, ne, pa, pe, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-n-p-r-s"
 

+1 letter: grapnels, resprang, speargun, spearing, trepangs.

 

+2 letters: aspersing, dognapers, escarping, grapiness, graplines, gunpapers, parsonage, passenger, personage, pharynges, preassign, presaging, relapsing, repassing, repasting, reshaping, respacing, respading, spanglier, spearguns, spreading, trapesing.

 

+3 letters: angiosperm, asparagine, asperating, carpetings, despairing, dognappers, gingersnap, godparents, grapevines, gyroplanes, headspring, orphanages, paganizers, panegyrics, panegyrist, parentages, parentings, pargylines, parsonages, passengers, patronages, pellagrins, pentagrams, personages, persuading, phalangers, pingrasses, plastering, pleasuring, preassigns, precasting, prepasting, preshaping, presoaking, pretasting, prewashing, reclasping, rephrasing, resampling, respeaking, respraying, restamping, saprogenic, scampering, scarpering, separating, sharpening, spattering, spongeware, springhead, superagent, supergiant, wingspread.

 

+4 letters: anemographs, angiosperms, asparagines, bespreading, campaigners, dispreading, espaliering, frangipanes, generalship, gingersnaps, gramophones, granophyres, graphicness, grapinesses, greasepaint, headsprings, impregnants, impregnates, lipreadings, managership, operagoings, overpassing, pageantries, panegyrists, parageneses, paragenesis, paramagnets, patternings, percentages, personating, phanerogams, plaistering, plasterings, prearranges, preassigned, precreasing, pregnancies, prehearings, prestamping, repugnances, respreading, scenography, semaphoring, sonographer, spermagonia, splattering, spongewares, springheads, springwater, stenography, straphanger, superadding, superagency, superagents, supergiants, tapestrying, trapnesting, trespassing, ungraspable, uppercasing, wingspreads.

 

+5 letters: bespattering, chaperonages, cheeseparing, despairingly, disappearing, earsplitting, exasperating, expurgations, forespeaking, frankpledges, gallinippers, generalships, grandnephews, grandparents, graspingness, greasepaints, impregnators, interspacing, jeopardising, laryngoscope, managerships, necrophagous, negrophobias, newspapering, nomographies, oropharynges, outspreading, overpraising, paperhangers, papermakings, pasteurising, pasteurizing, pelargoniums, peregrinates, phrasemaking, phrasemonger, plantigrades, pneumographs, pomegranates, preassigning, predeceasing, predesignate, premeasuring, reappraising, redisplaying, renographies, replastering, repugnancies, repurchasing, ropedancings, sandpapering, scenographer, scenographic, sonographers, sonographies, spearfishing, spearheading, spermagonium, springwaters, stenographer, stenographic, straphangers, superheating, superorganic, venographies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ENGRASP


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

45 4E 47 52 41 53 50

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)

01000101 01001110 01000111 01010010 01000001 01010011 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#78 &#71 &#82 &#65 &#83 &#80

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004E 0047 0052 0041 0053 0050

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

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

39484152355350

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INDEX

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


  

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