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THREAP

Definitions: THREAP

THREAP

Intransitive verb

1. To contend obstinately; to be pertinacious.

Noun

1. An obstinate decision or determination; a pertinacious affirmation.

Transitive verb

1. To cozen, or cheat.

2. To beat, or thrash.

3. To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; also, to contend or argue against (another) with obstinacy; to chide; as, he threaped me down that it was so.

4. To call; to name.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: THREAP

English words defined with "THREAP": Threaped, Threaping. (references)

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Derivations: THREAP

Derivations

Words beginning with "THREAP": threaped, threaper, threapers, threaping, threaps. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: THREAP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tephra, teraph.

Words within the letters "a-e-h-p-r-t"

-1 letter: apter, earth, hater, heart, pater, peart, prate, raphe, rathe, taper.

-2 letters: aper, eath, epha, haet, hare, harp, hart, hate, heap, hear, heat, pare, part, pate, path, pear, peat, pert, phat, prat, rape, rapt, rate, rath, reap, rhea, tahr, tape, tare, tarp, tear, tepa, thae, trap.

-3 letters: ape, apt, are, art, ate, ear, eat.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-h-p-r-t"
 

+1 letter: chapter, panther, patcher, phorate, preheat, repatch, tephras, therapy, threaps.

 

+2 letters: chapiter, chapters, earthpea, ephorate, graphite, heptarch, metaphor, panthers, patchers, patchier, pentarch, perianth, phorates, phreatic, plethora, preheats, sharpest, teraphim, threaped, threaper, triphase, upgather.

 

+3 letters: apartheid, archetype, atrophied, atrophies, champerty, chapiters, chaptered, deathtrap, earthpeas, ephorates, grapeshot, graphites, heatproof, heptarchs, heptarchy, metaphors, outpreach, parachute, parchment, pentarchs, pentarchy, perianths, phratries, plethoras, preheated, preheater, printhead, repatched, repatches, superheat, telegraph, therapies, therapist, therapsid, threapers, threaping, upgathers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: THREAP


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

54 48 52 45 41 50

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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