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Definition: SURBATE |
SURBATETransitive verb1. To harass; to fatigue. 2. To make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel. |
Date "SURBATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Note: Surbate \Sur*bate"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Surbated; present participle verb or noun Surbating.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deterioration | Wound, stab, pierce, maim, lame, surbate, cripple, hough, hamstring, hit between wind and water, scotch, mangle, mutilate, disfigure, blemish, deface, warp. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SURBATE |
| English words defined with "SURBATE": Surbated, Surbating, Surbeat, Surbet. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "SURBATE": Surbet. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: arbutes, bursate. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: abuser, arbute, barest, baster, beauts, breast, brutes, burets, bursae, buster, rebuts, tabers, tubers, urates. | |
-2 letters: abets, abuse, abuts, aster, aures, bares, baser, baste, bates, bears, beast, beats, beaus, beaut, betas, braes, brats, brute, buras, buret, bursa, burse, burst, butes, rates, rebus, rebut, rubes, saber, sabre, saute, stare, suber, sutra, taber, tabes, tabus. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: abstruse, abutters, baluster, barguest, rustable, saboteur, urbanest. | |
+2 letters: abruptest, absoluter, abstruser, absurdest, arbutuses, aubretias, aubrietas, balusters, barguests, braunites, breadnuts, breakouts, brutalise, butyrates, carburets, cubatures, drawtubes, drumbeats, eurybaths, grubstake, obturates, outbraves, outbreaks, rebuttals, saboteurs, saturable, scrutable, subaltern, submarket, subrogate, substrate, sunbather, tabourers, tabourets, tarbushes, trustable, turbaries, unstabler, urbanites. | |
+3 letters: abductores, abruptness, abstrusely, abstrusest, adumbrates, arboretums, attributes, balustrade, banqueters, barquettes, bifurcates, breadstuff, brutalised, brutalises, brutalizes, bushmaster, butterfats, exuberates, gangbuster, grubstaked, grubstaker, grubstakes, heartburns, hereabouts, lubricates, masturbate, obituaries, objurgates, rouseabout, rubricates, subalterns, subcentral, subchapter, subcordate, submarkets, subprimate, subrogated, subrogates, substrates, subtracted, subtracter, subtrahend, subvariety, sunbathers, tablatures, tambourers, trabeculas, tribulates, tribunates, turbinates, turntables, urbanities, vestibular, waterbucks. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 55 52 42 41 54 45 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... ..- .-. -... .- - . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01010101 01010010 01000010 01000001 01010100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S U R B A T E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0055 0052 0042 0041 0054 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53555236355439 |
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