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OBTEST

Definitions: OBTEST

OBTEST

Intransitive verb

1. To protest.

Transitive verb

1. To beseech; to supplicate; to beg for.

2. To call to witness; to invoke as a witness.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: OBTEST

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

Request

Beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore; conjure, adjure; obtest; cry to, kneel to, appeal to; invoke, evoke; impetrate, imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset, importune, dun, tax, clamor for; cry aloud, cry for help; fall on one's knees; throw oneself at the feet of; come down on one's marrowbones.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: OBTEST

English words defined with "OBTEST": Obtested, Obtesting. (references)

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Modern Translations: OBTEST

Language Translations for "OBTEST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

thërras (ask, bawl, call, call out, call up, conjure, convene, convoke, cry, drum up, exclaim, hail, holler, invite, page, shout, sing out, summon, vociferate, wawl, whoop). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

умолявам (adjure, beg, beseech, conjure, entreat, implore, invoke, plead, pray, supplicate), протестирам (declaim, kick, object, outcry, protest, remonstrate, up in arms), призовавам като свидетел. (various references)

   

Czech

  

prosit (ask, beg, beseech, implore, petition, plead, pray, solicit). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

التماس کردن (Beseech, Prig, Solicit, Supplicate), اعتراض کردن (Except, Object, Protest, Squawk), بشهادت طلبیدن . (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tanúnak hív. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

obtestay

   

Portuguese

  

obtestar, obtenção (achievement, attainment, making, procurement), suplicar (beg, beseech, crave, entreaty, implore, invoke, pray, supplicate), rogar (ask, ask for, beg, bid, entreat, file, implore, petitionary, request, solicit). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

протестовать (demur, exclaim against, object, outcry, protest, protested, protesting, rebel, reclaim, remonstrate). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

protestovati (deprecate, object, protest), preklinajti, kumiti, dići svoj glas protiv. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

protestar (carry on, contest, expostulate, kick, moan, protest, remonstrate, remonstration, wail, yap). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

protestera (expostulate, kick, object, protest, remonstrate). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

висловлювати протест (object to), закликати у свідки, заклинати (adjure, charm), протестувати (cry shame, demur, deprecate, except, expostulate, object, protest, remonstrate). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: OBTEST

Derivations

Words beginning with "OBTEST": obtested, obtesting, obtests. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: OBTEST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-o-s-t-t"

-1 letter: besot, botts, totes.

-2 letters: best, bets, bots, bott, obes, sett, stet, stob, test, tets, toes, tost, tote, tots.

-3 letters: bet, bos, bot, obe, oes, ose, set, sob, sot, tet, toe, tot.

-4 letters: be, bo, es, et, oe, os, so, to.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-o-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: bettors, bottles, obtests.

 

+2 letters: abettors, besotted, betroths, biotites, blotters, bottlers, obtested, obtusest, taborets.

 

+3 letters: beetroots, besotting, betatrons, blottiest, botchiest, bottomers, buttoners, frostbite, librettos, obstetric, obstinate, obtesting, obturates, outbleats, rebottles, rebuttons, robustest, soubrette, spottable, steamboat, stoneboat, stylobate, subpotent, tabletops, tabourets, textbooks, tombstone, turbojets.

 

+4 letters: absolutest, abstention, bentonites, betrothals, betrotheds, birthstone, blotchiest, bonesetter, botrytises, bottlefuls, bottomless, bottomries, boycotters, briolettes, brochettes, buttonless, cobaltites, frostbites, keybuttons, obstetrics, obstructed, obtusities, osteoblast, oubliettes, outbitches, outboasted, outdebates, phototubes, postdebate, soubrettes, steamboats, stoneboats, stylobates, subtotaled, tombstones, trilobites, tuberosity, yottabytes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: OBTEST


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

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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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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