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GURGE

Definitions: GURGE

GURGE

Noun

1. A whirlpool.

Transitive verb

1. To swallow up.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "GURGE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references)


Synonyms within Context: GURGE

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

River

Body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash; spring tide, high tide, full tide; bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre; fresh, freshet; indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow; confluence, corrivation.

Rotation

Verticity, whir, whirl, eddy, vortex, whirlpool, gurge; countercurrent; Maelstrom, Charybdis; Ixion.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Derivations: GURGE

Derivations

Words beginning with "GURGE": gurged, gurges. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: GURGE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-g-r-u"

-1 letter: grue, urge.

-2 letters: egg, erg, reg, rue, rug.

-3 letters: er, re.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-g-r-u"
 

+1 letter: bugger, gauger, gouger, grudge, grunge, gurged, gurges, gurgle, hugger, lugger, mugger, rugged, rugger, tugger.

 

+2 letters: buggers, buggery, buggier, burgage, chugger, drugged, drugget, druggie, frugged, fuggier, garigue, gaugers, gougers, grudged, grudger, grudges, grunges, gurgled, gurgles, gurglet, huggers, juggler, luggers, muggers, muggier, plugger, puggier, puggree, regauge, ruggers, slugger, smugger, snugger, tuggers, vuggier.

 

+3 letters: begrudge, buggered, burgages, chuggers, debugger, druggets, druggier, druggies, garigues, gorgeous, greenbug, grudgers, grueling, grungier, gurglets, jugglers, jugglery, pluggers, puggaree, puggrees, puggries, quaggier, refuging, regauged, regauges, regluing, rejuggle, rogueing, roughage, roughleg, ruggeder, ruggedly, shrugged, sluggers, smuggler, snuggery, struggle, thuggery, unrigged.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GURGE


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

47 55 52 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)

01000111 01010101 01010010 01000111 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#85 &#82 &#71 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0055 0052 0047 0045

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

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

4155524139

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INDEX

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


  

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