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STUPE

Definition: STUPE

STUPE

Noun

1. A stupid person.

Transitive verb

1. To foment with a stupe.

2. Cloth or flax dipped in warm water or medicaments and applied to a hurt or sore.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Synonyms within Context: STUPE

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

Relief

Verb: relieve, ease, alleviate, mitigate, palliate, soothe; salve; soften, soften down; foment, stupe, poultice; assuage, allay.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: STUPE

English words defined with "STUPE": Stupa, Stuped, Stuping. (references)
Non-English Usage: "STUPE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (nark), Norwegian (dive).

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Modern Usage: STUPE

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Listen, stupe. The first week I was in this joint, somebody stole my Red Cross package, my blanket, and my left shoe (Stalag 17; writing credit: Donald Bevan; Edmund Trzcinski)

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

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Modern Translation: STUPE

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

Albanian

  

shtupë (plug, sponge, stopgap, stopper, swab, swob, tow, wad, washcloth, wiper), vë kompresë, kompresë (compress, pack). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏كمادة (cataplasm, compress, pack, poultice), ‏ضمادة (bandage, dressing, ligature, lint, pad). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

слагам горещ компрес, слагам лапа (poultice), горещ компрес, глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, dummy, fathead, flat, fool, gaby, gawk, goof, goon, gowk, greenhorn, gull, hammerhead, jackass, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap, sap-head, schmo, schnook, sheep's head, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, spoon, stupid, thickhead, tomfool, twit, witling, wittol, zany, zombie), лапа (application, flapper, flipper, fluke, fomentation, pad, paw, poultice, pud). (various references)

   

French

  

pansement (sticking, sticking plaster), cataplasme. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

θερμό κατάπλασμα. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

melegvizes borogatást rak, melegvizes borogatás. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

upestay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

tolo (addle-brained, addled, corny, cuddy, daft, dull, finical, fool, foolish, gaby, goat, gowk, gull, hard-hearted, inept, insane, insensate, looby, loony, mad, madman, naïve, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, pigeon, pumpkin-head, screwy, silly, simpleton, softhead, softy, spoon, spoony, stock, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, vacuous, wacky, witless), imbecil (addled, anile, ass, barmy, dull, dunderhead, fatuous, feather brain, featherbrained, foolish, goofy, gowk, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, jackass, loggerhead, moronic, nitwit, nitwitted, oaf, oafish, pumpkin-head, stupid, twerp, underwit, witless), estúpido (addle-brained, addled, ass, blockhead, blockish, blunderer, blunderhead, boeotian, booby, bovine, chuckle-head, chump, crass, dense, dim-witted, dolt, dull, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, fatuous, featherbrained, fool, foolish, goofy, jolterhead, lubber, lubber-head, lubberly, lumpish, mindless, mutton-head, mutton-headed, numskull, oafish, obtuse, pigheaded, silly, slow, stock, stupid, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted, unintelligent, vacuous), compressa quente, aplicar compressa sobre. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

compresã (bolster, compress, pledget), cataplasmã (cataplasm, fomentation, poultice). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ставить горячий компресс, компресс (compress, pledget), горячий компресс. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

staviti oblog, staviti kompresu, oblog (compress, pack), kompresa (compress). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

estúpido (addle-brained, addle-head, addle-pated, anserine, asinine, blockhead, blunderhead, bone head, brainless, coot, crass, dense, dim witted, donkey, dull, dullard, idiot, idiotic, lame brain, lumpish, obtuse, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, senseless, soft, stupid). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sıcak kompres yapmak (foment), sıcak kompres (fomentation). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

припарка (cataplasm, embrocation, fomentation, poultice), дурень (ass, blunderhead, bone head, booby, bullhead, changeling, chump, clod, clot, dimwit, dolt, donkey, fool, fop, gander, imbecile, jackass, moke, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, omadhaun, owl, pinhead, pudding-head, softy, stupid, tomfool, you imbecile). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: STUPE

Derivations

Words beginning with "STUPE": stupefaction, stupefactions, stupefied, stupefies, stupefy, stupefying, stupefyingly, stupendous, stupendously, stupendousness, stupendousnesses, stupes. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: STUPE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: setup, upset.

Words within the letters "e-p-s-t-u"

-1 letter: pest, pets, puts, sept, spue, step, suet, supe, tups.

-2 letters: pes, pet, pus, put, set, sue, sup, tup, ups, use, uts.

-3 letters: es, et, pe, up, us, ut.

 Words containing the letters "e-p-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: erupts, getups, letups, purest, putzes, septum, setups, stupes, taupes, unstep, upsent, upsets, upstep.

 

+2 letters: cuspate, deputes, dispute, impetus, imputes, metumps, outsped, pasteup, pasture, peanuts, penults, petasus, petrous, piquets, piteous, pluteus, posture, pouters, precuts, proteus, pullets, pulsate, puniest, punkest, punnets, punster, punters, punties, pupates, puppets, pustule, puttees, putters, putties, reputes, septums, spouted, spouter, spurted, spurtle, sputter, stipule, stumped, stumper, stupefy, subtype, sumpter, suspect, takeups, teacups, toupees, troupes, tuneups, tupelos, unspent, unsteps, unswept, upbeats, updates, uprates, upstage, upstare, upstate, upsteps, upswept, uptakes, uptears, uptimes.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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