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SCRUPLED

Definition: SCRUPLED

SCRUPLED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Scruple

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SCRUPLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1644. (references)



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Crosswords: SCRUPLED

English words defined with "SCRUPLED": scruple. (references)

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Use in Literature: SCRUPLED

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

He would probably have scrupled to sound too deeply certain problems, reserved in some sort for great and terrible minds.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: SCRUPLED

"SCRUPLED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SCRUPLED" is used about 2 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)100%2245,945

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

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Modern Translations: SCRUPLED

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

German

  

skrupelhaft, hatte Bedenken. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

upledscray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: SCRUPLED

Misspellings

"SCRUPLED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schupke, scrumple, scrupe, scrupge, scrupple, scrupule, scrupuled, sculped. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: SCRUPLED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-l-p-r-s-u"

-1 letter: curdles, scruple, sculped, slurped, spruced.

-2 letters: crudes, cupels, curdle, curled, cursed, cusped, drupes, dupers, lucres, perdus, prudes, pulers, pulsed, pulser, purled, pursed, spruce, ulcers.

-3 letters: clued, clues, crude, cruds, cruel, cruse, cupel, curds, cured, cures, curls, curse, drupe, druse, duces, duels, dulse, duper, dupes, duple, dures, ecrus, leuds, luces, lucre, ludes, lured, lures, perdu, prude, pseud, puces, puled, puler, pules, pulse, purls, purse, ruled, rules, sculp, slued, slurp, sprue, spued, sucre, super, ulcer.

-4 letters: cels, ceps, clue, crud, crus, cuds, cued, cues, cups, curd, cure, curl, curs, cusp, dels, duce, duel, dues, dupe, dups, dure, ecru, ecus, elds, leud, luce, lude, lues, lure, pecs, peds, pled, plus, puce, puds, pule, puls, pure, purl, purs, recs, reds, reps, rude, rued, rues, rule, ruse, scud, scup, sled, slue, slur, spec, sped, spud, spue, spur, sued, suer, supe, surd, sure, urds, used, user.

-5 letters: cel, cep, cud, cue, cup, cur, del, due, dup, ecu, eds, eld, els, ers, led, leu, pec, ped, per, pes, pud, pul, pur, pus, rec, red, rep, res, rue, sec, sel, ser, sue, sup, ups, urd, use.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-l-p-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: precludes.

 

+2 letters: resculpted, sculptured, sepulchred.

 

+3 letters: preschedule, procedurals, sepulchered, supercoiled, supercooled.

 

+4 letters: fluoroscoped, prescheduled, preschedules, pulchritudes, reduplicates, thunderclaps.

 

+5 letters: disrespectful, hydrocephalus, prescheduling, quadriplegics, reproducibles, supercalender, supercollider.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SCRUPLED


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

53 43 52 55 50 4C 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)

01010011 01000011 01010010 01010101 01010000 01001100 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#67 &#82 &#85 &#80 &#76 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0043 0052 0055 0050 004C 0045 0044

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

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

5337525550463938

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INDEX

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


  

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