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RESTRINGENT

Definitions: RESTRINGENT

RESTRINGENT

Adjective

1. Restringing; astringent; styptic.

Noun

1. A restringent medicine.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Restringent \Re*strin"gent\, adjective. [Latin expression restringens, p. pr.: compare to the French expression restringent.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: RESTRINGENT

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

Restraint

Stiff, restringent, strait-laced, hidebound, barkbound.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: RESTRINGENT

English words defined with "RESTRINGENT": Restringency. (references)
Etymologies containing "RESTRINGENT": Restringency. (references)

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Rhyming with "RESTRINGENT"

Words rhyming with "RESTRINGENT" (pronounced 'Re*strin"gent'): Adstringent, Assurgent, Bitangent, Circumfulgent, Coagent, Cogent, Constringent, Convergent, Co-regent, Corrugent, Cotangent, Frangent, Fringent, fulgent, indulgent, Minargent, Nonregent, Plangent, Profulgent, Pungent, reagent, Refringent, refulgent, Retromingent, Ringent, self-indulgent, stringent, Subagent, Subastringent, Subtangent, Surgent, Turgent, urgent. (additional references)

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Anagrams: RESTRINGENT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-n-n-r-r-s-t-t"

-2 letters: renesting, resenting, resetting, retesting, stringent, tentering.

-3 letters: entering, gentries, gitterns, grinners, grisette, inserter, insetter, integers, intenser, interest, internes, nettings, reesting, register, reinsert, reinters, renitent, rentiers, resigner, restring, sentient, sneering, steering, sternite, stringer, tergites, terrines, trientes.

-4 letters: engines, entires, entries, gerents, getters, ginners, gittern, greisen, grinner, integer, intense, intents, interne, interns, nesting, netters, nettier.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-n-n-r-r-s-t-t"
 

+3 letters: reintegrations.

 

+4 letters: misinterpreting, redintegrations, restrengthening.

 

+5 letters: antiferromagnets, counterinsurgent, countersignature, intergenerations.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RESTRINGENT


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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