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Definition: TREBLED |
TREBLEDImperative & past participle1. Of Treble |
Date "TREBLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Crosswords: TREBLED |
| Specialty definitions using "TREBLED": blurgle. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TREBLED": Treble. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Southern Rhodesia. Between 1938 and 1948 the number of factory workers trebled ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I trebled the cable to make it stronger, and for the same reason I twisted three of the iron bars together, binding the extremities into a hook. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "TREBLED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 66.28% of the time. "TREBLED" is used about 86 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 66.28% | 57 | 44,859 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 32.56% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.16% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 86 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "TREBLED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 成三倍 (Trebling, Tripled, tripling). (various references) | ||||
Finnish | kolmikertaistua (be trebled, treble). (various references) | ||||
German | verdreifachte (tripled, triplicated), verdreifacht (triples). (various references) | ||||
Hebrew | משולש (threefold, triangle, triangular, triple). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ebledtray | ||||
Misspellings | |
"TREBLED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Trabaldo, trabble, trable, Trealaw, trealled, trebel, trebiled, trele, tribed, trilbied, trisled, trobble, troble, truble. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TREBLED" (pronounced tre"buld) |
| 4 | -b u l d | ambled, assembled, babbled, bubbled, cabled, cobbled, corbelled, crumbled, dabbled, dibbled, disabled, disassembled, doubled, dribbled, enabled, enfeebled, fabled, fumbled, gambled, garbled, gobbled, grumbled, hobbled, humbled, jumbled, labeled, labelled, libeled, marbled, mislabeled, mumbled, nibbled, rambled, reassembled, redoubled, resembled, rumbled, scrambled, scribbled, squabbled, stumbled, tabled, trembled, troubled, tumbled, unlabeled, untroubled, wobbled. |
| 3 | -u l d | addled, angled, annulled, backpedaled, baffled, barreled, battled, bedeviled, bedraggled, befuddled, belittled, bespectacled, bevelled, bicycled, boggled, bottled, bridled, bristled, buckled, bundled, bungled, canceled, cancelled, channeled, chiseled, chortled, chronicled, chuckled, circled, coddled, commingled, counseled, coupled, crackled, credentialed, crippled, crumpled, cuddled, cycled, dangled, dazzled, dialed, dimpled, disgruntled, disheveled, dismantled, dueled, dwindled, embattled, embezzled, emerald, empaneled, enameled, encircled, entangled, entitled, equaled, fiddled, fizzled, flanneled, fondled, frazzled, freckled, fueled, fuelled, funneled, giggled, grappled, grizzled, haggled, handled, hassled, heckled, Herald, huddled, hustled, idled, impaneled, imperiled, initialed, intermingled, jangled, jostled, juggled, kindled, knuckled, ladled, leveled, levelled, mangled, manhandled, marshaled, marshalled, marveled, mingled, mishandled, modeled, mottled, muddled, muffled, muscled, muzzled, needled, nestled, nettled, newfangled, ogled, paddled, paneled, parceled, pedaled, pedalled, peddled, penciled, peopled, pickled, principled, pummeled, puzzled, quadrupled, quarreled, quintupled, rankled, rattled, raveled, recycled, refueled, rekindled, remodeled, resettled, reshuffled, reveled, riddled, rifled, rippled, rivaled, ruffled, rumpled, saddled, sampled, scaffold, scuffled, scuttled, settled, shackled, shoveled, shriveled, shuffled, shuttled, signaled, signalled, singled, sizzled, smuggled, snarled, spangled, sparkled, speckled, spiraled, sprinkled, squirreled, stapled, startled, stenciled, stifled, straddled, straggled, strangled, struggled, subtitled, swindled, tackled, tangled, tasseled, tattled, throttled, tickled, tinkled, titled, toggled, toppled, totaled, totalled, trampled, traveled, travelled, trickled, tripled, trundled, tussled, unbridled, unprincipled, unraveled, unrivaled, unruffled, unsettled, unshackled, untrammeled, waffled, wangled, whistled, whittled, widdled, wrangled, wrestled, wrinkled. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-l-r-t" | |
-1 letter: belted, belter, treble. | |
-2 letters: bedel, beret, betel, bleed, brede, breed, deter, elder, rebel, relet, treed. | |
-3 letters: beer, beet, belt, bled, blet, bred, bree, debt, deer, deet, dele, delt, dere, dree, leer, leet, rede, reed, reel, rete, teed, teel, tele, tree. | |
-4 letters: bed, bee, bel, bet, deb, dee, del, eel, eld, ere, led, lee, let. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-l-r-t" | |
+1 letter: trembled. | |
+2 letters: blathered, blattered, blethered, blistered, blithered, blustered, bolstered, liberated, lobstered, rebottled, tradeable. | |
+3 letters: celebrated, creditable, deliberate, deportable, deterrable, elaborated, embrittled, extrudable, timbrelled. | |
+4 letters: blueprinted, butterflied, deliberated, deliberates, detribalize, elucubrated, letterboxed, obliterated, predictable, redoubtable, tabernacled, unliberated. | |
+5 letters: accreditable, bewilderment, bigheartedly, defibrillate, deliberately, deliberating, deliberation, deliberative, demonstrable, destructible, determinable, determinably, detribalized, detribalizes, disreputable, equilibrated, extraditable, filibustered, perambulated, readjustable, recalibrated, rehydratable, relubricated, restabilized, timberdoodle, tuberculated, uncelebrated. | |
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