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REPRIEVED

Definition: REPRIEVED

REPRIEVED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Reprieve

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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

Crosswords: REPRIEVED

English words defined with "REPRIEVED": Unreprievable. (references)
Specialty definitions using "REPRIEVED": Reprieve. (references)

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Usage Frequency: REPRIEVED

"REPRIEVED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 67.69% of the time. "REPRIEVED" is used about 65 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)67.69%4451,500
Adjective (general or positive)20%1397,576
Lexical Verb (past tense)10.77%7133,076
Noun (proper)1.54%1339,140
                    Total100.00%65N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: REPRIEVED

Expression using "REPRIEVED": be reprieved. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translations: REPRIEVED

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

German

  

begnadigt (amnestied, pardons), befristet (determinable, limited, reprieves, restricted, temporary, terminable). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eprievedray

   

Swedish

  

benĂ¥dade. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: REPRIEVED

Misspellings

"REPRIEVED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reaprieve, rebriefed, repreive, rerieve, resprieve. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: REPRIEVED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-i-p-r-r-v"

-1 letter: depriver, reprieve.

-2 letters: deprive, deriver, predive, redrive, reedier, revered, reverie.

-3 letters: deeper, derive, driver, eerier, peered, peerie, peeved, perdie, reeved, reived, reiver, revere, riever, veered, verier.

-4 letters: direr, diver, drier, drive, eerie, eider, erred, peeve, preed, pride, pried, prier, redip, reeve, reive, rider, riped, riper, rived, river, viper.

-5 letters: deep, deer, dere, dire, dive, dree.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-i-p-r-r-v"
 

+2 letters: predelivery, privateered.

 

+4 letters: overimpressed, predeliveries.

 

+5 letters: overprescribed, overprivileged, prediscoveries, preinterviewed.

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

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Alternative Orthography: REPRIEVED


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

52 45 50 52 49 45 56 45 44

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)

.-.    .    .--.    .-.    ..    .    ...-    .    -..

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

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

01010010 01000101 01010000 01010010 01001001 01000101 01010110 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#80 &#82 &#73 &#69 &#86 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 0050 0052 0049 0045 0056 0045 0044

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

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

523950524339563938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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