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Definition: SUBREPTION |
SUBREPTIONNoun1. The act of obtaining a favor by surprise, or by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts. |
Date "SUBREPTION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Etymology: Subreption \Sub*rep"tion\, noun. [Latin expression subreptio, from subripere, subreptum, to snatch or take away secretly: compare to the French expression subreption. See Surreptitious.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Acquisition | Subreption; obreption; stealing. |
Falsehood | Noun: falsehood, falseness; falsity, falsification; deception; untruth; guile; lying; untruth; guile; lying; Verb: misrepresentation; mendacity, perjury, false swearing; forgery, invention, fabrication; subreption; covin. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SUBREPTION |
| Etymologies containing "SUBREPTION": Surreption. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "SUBREPTION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | премълчаване (reticence), преиначаване (coloring, colouring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | subreptie, bereiken van het doel door vervalsing, bereiken van het doel door verschalking. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | petos armahduksen tai etuoikeuden saamiseksi tosiasioita vääristelemällä. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | subreption. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Erschleichung durch falsche Angaben. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | surrezione, furto occulto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ubreptionsay sub-repção. (various references) bedräglig åtkomst av något. (various references) sự xuyên tạc sự thật, sự cướp đoạt trò gian dối, thủ đoạn che giấu sự bóp méo sự thật. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SUBREPTION": subreptions. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "SUBREPTION" (pronounced 'Sub*rep"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-n-o-p-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: eruptions. | |
-2 letters: bornites, bounties, burstone, eruption, pointers, porniest, postburn, proteins, pruinose, roupiest, routines, snoutier, tribunes, tropines, turbines, unripest. | |
-3 letters: boniest, bornite, bournes, brunets, bunters, burnets, burnies, burtons, bustier, inburst, inpours, nitrous, norites, nutsier, obtuser, oestrin, orbiest, orients, orpines, ourebis, petrous, pintoes, piteous, pointer, pointes, postern, posture, pouters, poutier, probits, prostie, protein, proteus, pterins. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-n-o-p-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: subreptions. | |
+3 letters: insupportable, perturbations, precombustion. | |
+4 letters: incorruptibles, perambulations, precombustions, republications. | |
+5 letters: boustrophedonic, prepublications. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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