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EXENTERATE

Definition: EXENTERATE

EXENTERATE

Transitive verb

1. To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "EXENTERATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Etymology: Exenterate \Ex*en"ter*ate\, transitive verb. [Latin expression exenteratus, past participle of exenterare; compare to Greek; out intestine.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: EXENTERATE

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

Ejection

Embowel, disbowel, disembowel; eviscerate, gut; unearth, root out, root up; averuncate; weed out, get out; eliminate, get rid of, do away with, shake off; exenterate.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Derivations: EXENTERATE

Derivations

Words beginning with "EXENTERATE": exenterated, exenterates. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "EXENTERATE"

Words rhyming with "EXENTERATE" (pronounced 'Ex*en"ter*ate'): Abacinate, Abalienate, Aberrate, Aberuncate, Abirritate, Abjudicate, Abjugate, Ablactate, Ablaqueate, Abligate, Abnegate, Abnodate, Abominate, Abranchiate, Absinthate, Absinthiate, Absquatulate, Acaudate, Accelerate, Accentuate, Acclimate, Accorporate, Accriminate, Accurate, Acerbate, Acetate, Achlamydate, Acidulate, Activate, Aculeate, Aculeolate, Acutifoliate, Acutilobate, Adipocerate, Adjugate, Admarginate, Administrate, Adnate, Adrogate, Adulate, Adumbrate, Aerate, AEstivate, Affatuate, Affectionate, Affricate, Aggerate, Aggrate, Aggravate, Agitate. (additional references)

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Anagrams: EXENTERATE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-e-n-r-t-t-x"

-3 letters: entreat, externe, ratteen, ternate.

-4 letters: entera, entree, eterne, extant, extent, extern, natter, neater, netter, ratten, retene, teener, teeter, tenter, terete.

-5 letters: antre, arete, eaten, eater, enate, enter, exert, extra, ranee, rente, retax, tater, taxer, tenet, terne, tetra, treat, treen.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-e-n-r-t-t-x"
 

+1 letter: exenterated, exenterates.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EXENTERATE


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

45 58 45 4E 54 45 52 41 54 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 01011000 01000101 01001110 01010100 01000101 01010010 01000001 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#88 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#65 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0058 0045 004E 0054 0045 0052 0041 0054 0045

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

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

39583948543952355439

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Derivations
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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