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UNKENNEL

Definition: UNKENNEL

UNKENNEL

Transitive verb

1. Fig.: To discover; to disclose.

2. To drive from a kennel or hole; as, to unkennel a fox.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "UNKENNEL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)


Synonyms within Context: UNKENNEL

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

Disclosure

Verb: disclose, discover, dismask; draw the veil, draw aside the veil, lift the veil, raise the veil, lift up the veil, remove the veil, tear aside the veil, tear the curtain; unmask, unveil, unfold, uncover, unseal, unkennel; take off the seal, break the seal; lay open, lay bare; expose; open, open up; bare, bring to light.

Ejection

Turn out of doors, turn out of house and home; evict, oust; unhouse, unkennel; dislodge; unpeople, dispeople; depopulate; relegate, deport.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: UNKENNEL

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

Albanian

  

heq nga strofulli. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разкривам (bewray, bring to light, detect, disclose, discover, disinter, divulge, elicit, expose, find out, manifest, penetrate, show, smell out, spill, unbare, unclose, unclothe, uncover, uncurtain, undress, unload, unlock, unravel, unveil), пущам от колибата му, изяснявам (clarify, clear, crystallize, elucidate, enucleate, make understand, ravel, sound out, talk out, translate, unscramble), изваждам наяве (dredge). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

ازسوراخ یالانه بیرون کردن , راندن (Booh, Dislodge, Drive, Force, Hurry, Pilot, Poach, Rein, Repulse, Row, Steer, Stub, Whisk). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kutyát szabadon enged. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ennelunkay

   

Portuguese

  

revelar (betray, bewray, break, demonstrate, disclose, discover, disembosom, display, expose, lay bare, publicize, represent, reveal, show, smoke out, unbosom, uncloak, unclose, uncover, unfold, unmask, unveil), fazer sair do canil, fazer sair da toca (unearth), descobrir (ascertain, bare, bewray, denudate, denude, descry, detect, dig up, disclose, discover, elicit, espy, find, find out, get out, hunt out, hunt up, identify, lay open, lay up bare, open, pioneer, poke about, publicize, reveal, see, show up, spell out, strike, surprise, to discover, uncap, uncloak, unclose, uncover, unearth, unmask, unveil). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

открывать (abroach, dedicate, detect, discover, lead off, open, open up, reveal, turn on, uncap, unclose, uncover, undraw, unfold, unlock, unshutter, unveil). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

isterati iz jazbine, isterati iz štenare. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: UNKENNEL

Derivations

Words beginning with "UNKENNEL": unkenneled, unkenneling, unkennelled, unkennelling, unkennels. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "UNKENNEL"

Words rhyming with "UNKENNEL" (pronounced 'Un*ken"nel'): Colonel, Cornel, Cracknel, Crapnel, Darnel, flannel, funnel, grapnel, Kymnel, Pannel, Pernel, Rannel, runnel, Scrannel, shrapnel, simnel, Spicknel, Spigurnel, Uncharnel, Unpannel, Wennel. (additional references)

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Anagrams: UNKENNEL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-k-l-n-n-n-u"

-2 letters: kennel.

-3 letters: kneel.

-4 letters: keel, keen, knee, kune, leek, leke, leku, lune, lunk, nene, neuk, nuke.

-5 letters: eel, eke, elk, ken, kue, lee, lek, leu, nee, nun, uke.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-k-l-n-n-n-u"
 

+1 letter: unkennels.

 

+2 letters: unkenneled.

 

+3 letters: unkenneling, unkennelled.

 

+4 letters: unkennelling.

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

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Alternative Orthography: UNKENNEL


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

55 4E 4B 45 4E 4E 45 4C

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)

..-    -.    -.-    .    -.    -.    .    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01001110 01001011 01000101 01001110 01001110 01000101 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#78 &#75 &#69 &#78 &#78 &#69 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 004E 004B 0045 004E 004E 0045 004C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5548453948483946

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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