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ESTREPE

Definition: ESTREPE

ESTREPE

Transitive verb

1. To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Estrepe \Es*trepe"\, transitive verb. [Old French expression estreper.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Crosswords: ESTREPE

Non-English Usage: "ESTREPE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (crowfoot, thorn).

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Anagrams: ESTREPE

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: steeper.

Words within the letters "e-e-e-p-r-s-t"

-1 letter: pester, peters, preset, tepees.

-2 letters: epees, ester, peers, perse, peter, prees, prese, prest, reest, resee, reset, speer, spree, steep, steer, stere, strep, tepee, terse, trees.

-3 letters: epee, erst, peer, pees, pert, pest, pets, pree, rees, reps, rest, rete, rets, seep, seer, sept, sere, step, tees, tree.

-4 letters: ere, ers, pee, per, pes, pet, ree.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-p-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: pestered, pesterer, preteens, pretense, steepers, terpenes.

 

+2 letters: creepiest, departees, deportees, desperate, expertise, permeates, persecute, pesterers, pewterers, preelects, preerects, preselect, presented, presentee, presenter, pretences, pretenses, pretested, protegees, repartees, repeaters, repenters, repetends, represent, rerepeats, respected, respecter, retempers, sceptered, speedster, superette, temperers.

 

+3 letters: deprecates, depredates, enterprise, epicenters, exasperate, excerpters, expediters, expertises, expertizes, expertness, hypertense, pacesetter, papeteries, pedometers, penetrates, perennates, perfecters, perfectest, perimeters, peripeties, permittees, persecuted, persecutee, persecutes, pertnesses, perverters, postfreeze, precedents, predestine, preexisted, preheaters, preselects, presentees, presenters, presweeten, pretenders, preterites, preventers, puppeteers, reoperates, repellents, represents, respecters, respective, serpentine, speedsters, stereopses, stereotype, superelite, superettes, supersweet, treponemes, typesetter, vespertine.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ESTREPE


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

45 53 54 52 45 50 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)

01000101 01010011 01010100 01010010 01000101 01010000 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#83 &#84 &#82 &#69 &#80 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0053 0054 0052 0045 0050 0045

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

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

39535452395039

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INDEX

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


  

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