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OVERGIVE

Definition: OVERGIVE

OVERGIVE

Transitive verb

1. To give over; to surrender; to yield.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "OVERGIVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Note: Overgive \O`ver*give"\, transitive verb. To give over; to surrender; to yield. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913)


Anagrams: OVERGIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-o-r-v-v"

-2 letters: grieve, regive, revive.

-3 letters: giver, grove, ogive, reive, vegie, verge, verve, vigor, vireo, vogie.

-4 letters: eger, ergo, ever, giro, give, goer, gore, gree, ogee, ogre, over, rive, rove, veer, vier, vive.

-5 letters: ego, ere, erg, eve, gee, gie, gor, ire, ore, ree, reg, rei, rev, rig, roe, vee, veg, vie, vig, voe.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-o-r-v-v"
 

+5 letters: overachieving, overgoverning, overservicing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: OVERGIVE


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

4F 56 45 52 47 49 56 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)

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

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010 01000111 01001001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#86 &#69 &#82 &#71 &#73 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0056 0045 0052 0047 0049 0056 0045

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

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

4956395241435639

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