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Definition: LABEFY |
LABEFYTransitive verb1. To weaken or impair. |
Etymology: Labefy \Lab"e*fy\, transitive verb. [Latin expression labefacere; labare to totter facere to make.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deterioration | Injure, impair, labefy, damage, harm, hurt, shend, scath, scathe, spoil, mar, despoil, dilapidate, waste; overrun; ravage; pillage. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: LABEFY |
| Etymologies containing "LABEFY": Labefaction. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "LABEFY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | gyengít (emasculate, stultify, to deaden, to degrade, to extenuate, to slack, to slacken, to stultify, to weaken, weaken). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abefylay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "LABEFY" (pronounced 'Lab"e*fy'): Acidify, Adsignify, Aerify, Alacrify, Angelify, Anglicify, Anglify, Arefy, Argufy, Balmify, Basify, Beatify, Bonify, Brutify, Candify, Capacify, Carnify, Celestify, Certify, Chondrify, Chylify, Chymify, Classify, Cockneyfy, Codify, Consignify, Corporify, Correctify, Countrify, Crucify, Cuffy, Daintify, Damnify, Dandify, Decalcify, Deify, Demideify, Denitrify, Devitrify, Dezincify, Diabolify, Dignify, Disacidify, Disdeify, Disedify, Disglorify, Disguisedfy, Disqualify, Dissatisfy, Dissyllabify, Diversify, Divinify, Domify, Dulcify, Duncify, Emulsify, Endamnify, Eternify, Exemplify, Fecundify, Fe-licify, Finify, Fishify, Foolify, Foresignify, Frenchify, Fumify, Glorify, gratify, Hornify, horrify, Humanify, Ignify, indemnify, Indignify, interstratify, jellify, jiffy, Ladify, lenify, Madefy, malignify, Mercify, Mercurify, Metrify, minify, modify, mollify, Mummify, Mundify, Munify, Mystify, Neatify, Netify, Nitrify, Nobilify, Notify, Nugify, Nullify, Objectify, Obstupefy, Omnify, Overmagnify, Pacify, Personify, Preachify, Presignify, Pretypify, Putrify, ratify, Recarnify, rectify, Reedify, Refortify, Remodify, Repacify, Repurify, revivify, rubify, Russify, saccharify, Salify, Salsafy, salsify, sanctify, Sanguify, saponify, scarify, Scorify, signify, simplify, specify, speechify, squiffy, Stellify, Stiltify, Storify, stratify, stultify, stupefy, Suavify, Subdiversify, syllabify, Tabefy, taffy, Tepefy, Terrestrify, terrify, Tipsify, Torpify, Torrefy, transmogrify, uglify, Undeify, Unglorify, unify, Unnotify, Unqualify, Varify, Vilify, Vivify, Zincify. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-f-l-y" | |
-1 letter: belay, fable, leafy. | |
-2 letters: able, ably, abye, alef, bale, blae, feal, flab, flay, flea, fley, leaf. | |
-3 letters: aby, alb, ale, aye, bal, bay, bel, bey, bye, elf, fay, fey, fly, lab, lay, lea, ley, lye, yea. | |
-4 letters: ab, ae, al, ay, ba, be, by, ef, el, fa, la, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-f-l-y" | |
+1 letter: flyable. | |
+2 letters: feasibly. | |
+3 letters: balefully, banefully, definably, ineffably, refutably, unflyable. | |
+4 letters: blamefully, defrayable, preferably, sufferably. | |
+5 letters: barefacedly, beautifully, certifiably, farkleberry, feasibility, flamboyance, indefinably, irrefutably, syllabified, syllabifies. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 41 42 45 46 59 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- -... . ..-. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01000001 01000010 01000101 01000110 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L A B E F Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0041 0042 0045 0046 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)463536394059 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Rhymes | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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