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Enrobe

Definitions: Enrobe

Enrobe

Verb

1. Provide with a coating, as of chocolates.

2. Adorn with a robe.

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

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

Etymology: Enrobe \En*robe"\, transitive verb. [Prefix en- robe: compare to Old French expression enrober.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: Enrobe

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

Clothing

Vest, clothe, array, dress, dight, drape, robe, enrobe, attire, apparel, accounter, rig, fit out; deck; (ornament); perk, equip, harness, caparison.

Divestment

Verb: divest; uncover; (cover; ); denude, bare, strip; disfurnish; undress, disrobe; (dress, enrobe; ); uncoif; dismantle; put off, take off, cast off; doff; peel, pare, decorticate, excoriate, skin, scalp, flay; expose, lay open; exfoliate, molt, mew; cast the skin.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: Enrobe

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

Albanian

  

vesh (accredit, apparel, array, arrogate, ascribe, attire, attribute, back, cannon, clothe, coat, cover up, Don, dress, ear, endue, face, garb, gird, hanger, impute, inlay, invest, line, lug, overlay, paper, pop, pull on, put on, raceme, revet, sheathe, tapestry, throw on, tog, vesture, wear, whack). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

обличам се (busk, drape oneself, dress, getting dressed, invest, robe, tog), намятам с мантия. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

穿着. (various references)

   

Czech

  

obléci (do on, dress, endue, get into, put on). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

díszruhába öltöztet (to robe). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mengenakan pakaian, mengenakan (don, put at case, reassure, wear). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enrobeay

   

Portuguese

  

enriquecimento (enricher, enriching, enrichment, enrichment process, moneymaking, pull-up, push-up, reinforcement, strengthening, supplementing natural regeneration), revestir (braze, case, clothe, coat, drape, dress, encase, endue, face, fit out, garnish, incautious, indulge, jacketed, overlay, plaster, prankish, revet, robe, trim, vesture, wash). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

облачать (array, garb). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

obući (don, dress, garb, put on, robe, throw on, tog). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

vestirse (clothe, costume, dress, frock, get dressed, put on, rob oneself, turn out). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

klä (attire, become, clothe, cover, drape, dress, garb, suit). (various references)

   

Thai

  

แต่งชุ"พิธีการ (คำทางการ). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

elbise giydirmek, giydirmek (array, attire, clothe, doll out, doll up, Don, dress, equip, garb, invest, revet, rig out, robe, turn out, vesture). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

глазурувати (enamel, frost, glaze, ice), одягати (apparel, array, attire, clothe, costume, dress, garb, gown, habit). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

arwisgo (array, invest). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Enrobe

Derivations

Words beginning with "enrobe": enrobed, enrober, enrobers, enrobes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Enrobe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: engobe, enobe, Nerone. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Enrobe

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: boreen.

Words within the letters "b-e-e-n-o-r"

-1 letter: boner, borne.

-2 letters: been, beer, bene, bone, bore, born, bree, bren, ebon, erne, robe.

-3 letters: bee, ben, bro, eon, ere, ern, neb, nee, nob, nor, obe, one, orb, ore, reb, ree, rob, roe.

-4 letters: be, bo, en, er, ne, no, oe, on, or, re.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-e-n-o-r"
 

+1 letter: boreens, deboner, enrobed, enrober, enrobes, redbone.

 

+2 letters: anaerobe, beckoner, deboners, ennobler, enrobers, freeborn, obscener, redbones, seaborne, verboten.

 

+3 letters: anaerobes, banderole, bandoleer, beckoners, begroaned, bethorned, boogermen, broadened, burgeoned, embrowned, ennoblers, habergeon, horsebean, nonmember, overborne, rebellion, rebounded, rebounder, recombine, soberness, tenebrous.

 

+4 letters: abhorrence, banderoles, bandoleers, baronesses, baronetage, beforehand, benefactor, beribboned, bonesetter, borderline, bourgeoned, breastbone, brokenness, browbeaten, burdensome, emblazoner, embowering, embryogeny, endorsable, governable, habergeons, hornblende, horsebeans, inexorable, inoperable, knobkerrie, lobstermen, naboberies, negrophobe, neighbored, neoliberal, nonbreeder, nonmembers, observance, overbeaten, overbidden, overburden, overburned, personable, ponderable, probenecid, reasonable, rebellions, rebounders, rebuttoned, recombined, recombines, reobtained, reprobance, snobberies, somberness, tenebrious, unobserved, waterborne.

 

+5 letters: abhorrences, arborescent, baronetages, baronetcies, beardtongue, bedcovering, beflowering, benedictory, benefactors, bioengineer, bonesetters, boomeranged, borderlines, boutonniere, boysenberry, breastbones, broadnesses, celebration, centerboard, cerebration, conferrable, conversable, convertible, counterbade, decarbonate, decarbonize, emblazoners, embordering, embroilment, embryogenic, embryonated, enforceable, exorbitance, forbearance, freebooting, heartbroken, hereinabove, hereinbelow, herringbone, hornblendes, housebroken, hyperborean, incoercible, intolerable, knobkerries, negrophobes, neighboured, neoliberals, nonbeliever, nonbreeders, nonbreeding, nonreusable, obscureness, observances, outbreeding, outnumbered, overbalance, overbearing, overbeating, overbetting, overburdens, probenecids, reembodying, reobjecting, reobserving, reprobances, responsible, snowberries, sobernesses, teenybopper, tenebrionid, theobromine, tinderboxes, treasonable, underbodies, underbosses, unelaborate, unmemorable, unremovable, verboseness, workbenches.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Enrobe


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

45 6E 72 6F 62 65

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)

01000101 01101110 01110010 01101111 01100010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#110 &#114 &#111 &#98 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006E 0072 006F 0062 0065

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

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

398084816871

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INDEX

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


  

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