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Definitions: OBREPTION |
OBREPTIONNoun1. The obtaining gifts of escheat by fraud or surprise. 2. The act of creeping upon with secrecy or by surprise. |
Etymology: Obreption \Ob*rep"tion\, noun. [Latin expression obreptio, from obrepere, obreptum, to creep up to; ob (see Ob-) repere to creep.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Acquisition | Subreption; obreption; stealing. |
Concealment | Stealth, stealthiness, sneakiness; obreption; slyness; (cunning). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: OBREPTION |
| Etymologies containing "OBREPTION": Obreptitious. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "OBREPTION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Ukranian | придбання недозволеними засобами. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "OBREPTION" (pronounced 'Ob*rep"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-n-o-o-p-r-t" | |
-2 letters: biotope, biotron, bornite, eobiont, pointer, portion, protein, tropine. | |
-3 letters: bonier, bonito, bootie, enroot, norite, operon, option, orient, orpine, pointe, potion, probit, pronto, protei, proton, pterin, reboot, tonier, tropin. | |
-4 letters: beton, biont, biter, boite, boner, borne, boron, brent, brine, inept, inert, inter, intro, irone, netop, niter, nitre, nitro, noter, oorie, opine, orbit, orpin, pinot. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-n-o-o-p-r-t" | |
+2 letters: probationer, reprobation. | |
+3 letters: probationers, reprobations. | |
+4 letters: apportionable, bromocriptine, nonabsorptive, postembryonic, precombustion. | |
+5 letters: bromocriptines, pentobarbitone, phenobarbitone, postliberation, precombustions, proportionable. | |
| 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)4F 42 52 45 50 54 49 4F 4E |
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