PURSED

Definition: PURSED

PURSED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Purse

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "PURSED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Breathe out against pursed lips, like when whistling. (references)
		Breathing exercises and breathing techniques, such as pursed lips breathing and relaxation, improve functional status. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"PURSED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 83.58% of the time. "PURSED" is used about 201 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	83.58%	168	24,050
Adjective (general or positive)	13.43%	27	66,962
Lexical Verb (past participle)	2.99%	6	143,867
Total	100.00%	201	N/A

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "PURSED": pursed-up.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Misspellings
	"PURSED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: perseid, Porsild, Puraspec, pursa, pursay, pursee. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "PURSED" (pronounced per"st)
4	p er" s t	dispersed, interspersed.
3	-er" s t	burst, coerced, conversed, cursed, disbursed, durst, emersed, first, headfirst, Hurst, immersed, nursed, rehearsed, reimbursed, reversed, submersed, thirst, traversed, unrehearsed, versed, worst, Wurst.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: drupes, dupers, perdus, prudes.
	Words within the letters "d-e-p-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: drupe, druse, duper, dupes, dures, perdu, prude, pseud, purse, sprue, spued, super.
	-2 letters: dues, dupe, dups, dure, peds, puds, pure, purs, reds, reps, rude, rued, rues, ruse, sped, spud, spue, spur, sued, suer, supe, surd, sure, urds, used, user.
	-3 letters: due, dup, eds, ers, ped, per, pes, pud, pur, pus, red, rep, res.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-p-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: dumpers, perdues, perused, predusk, pursued, slurped, spruced, spudder, spurned, spurred, spurted, supered, updries, usurped.
	+2 letters: disputer, dumpster, duperies, pastured, perdures, perfused, persuade, plunders, postured, pounders, predusks, preludes, presumed, produces, proudest, puddlers, purposed, repulsed, scrupled, splurged, sprouted, spudders, stupider, superadd, superbad, suspired, undrapes, updaters, upgrades, upraised, uproused, uprushed, upsoared, upstared, upsurged, uptrends.
	+3 letters: depurates, dipterous, disposure, disputers, disrepute, disrupted, disrupter, douzepers, drupelets, dumpsters, duplexers, eupatrids, outspread, pedicures, percussed, persuaded, persuader, persuades, pleasured, ponderous, poulardes, preaudits, precludes, prejudges, preluders, presidium, pressured, priedieus, producers, protrudes, prudences, pruderies, purchased, purebreds, repursued, scuppered, splendour, sputtered, subperiod, sulphured, superadds, supercede, superfund, supergood, supermind, superroad, supersede, superstud, superwide, supported, surpassed, surprised, surprized, suspender, underlaps, underlips, underpass, underpays, underpins, underspin, unpressed, unsphered, unsprayed, upholders, uplanders, upstarted, upstirred.
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