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Definitions: Bespangle |
BespangleVerb1. Decorate with spangles. 2. Dot or sprinkle with sparkling or glittering objects. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Bespangle \Be*span"gle\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Bespangled; present participle verb or noun Bespangling.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: BespangleSynonym: spangle (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ornament | Garnish, trim, dizen, bedizen, prink, prank; trick out, fig out; deck, bedeck, dight, bedight, array; begawd, titivate; dress, dress up; spangle, bespangle, powder; embroider, work; chase, emboss, fret, emblazon; illuminate; illustrate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bespangle |
| English words defined with "bespangle": Bespangling. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "bespangle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zbukuroj (adorn, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, bespread, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, embroider, festoon, flatter, Flavor, flavour, garnish, gild the pill, glorify, inlay, intersperse, landscape, ornament, pink, prettify, set with, smarten up, stud, touch up, trap, trick out, trim, water down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | زين بالترتر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στολίζω (adorn, array, attire, beautify, caparison, deck, decorate, doll, doll up, embellish, garnish, ornament, perk, prank, prim, primp, prink, titivate, tog, trim). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | cicomáz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jannoo drillinagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | espanglebay enfeitar com lentejoulas. (various references) împodobi cu zorzoane. (various references) осыпать блестками. (various references) pokriti šljokicama. (various references) översålla med paljetter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Bespangle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: biospunge, bispangle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "bespangle" (pronounced 'Be*span"gle'): Adangle, Beagle, Bedaggle, Bedraggle, Bemangle, Bemingle, Bogle, Broggle, Cingle, Commingle, Cringle, Dingle, Disembrangle, Disentangle, Eagle, Embrangle, Entangle, Enveigle, Estrangle, Fugle, guggle, higgle, Huggle, Imbrangle, immingle, Intangle, Interjangle, Intertangle, inveigle, Jargle, jiggle, jungle, Lingle, Outjuggle, Paigle, Pingle, Rangle, Regle, Scriggle, Shoggle, snuggle, Springle, Teagle, tingle, toggle, Tringle, Twangle, Unentangle, Unmingle, untangle. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-g-l-n-p-s" | |
-2 letters: baleens, bangles, beagles, beleaps, enables, pelages, spangle, spelean. | |
-3 letters: abeles, agenes, aneles, angels, angles, asleep, bagels, baleen, bangle, beagle, beleap, belgas, bleeps, eagles, elapse, enable, gables, gleans, glebae, glebes, lebens, panels, peages, peasen, pelage, plages, planes, please, plebes, senega, spleen. | |
-4 letters: abele, ables, agene, aglee, anele, angel, angle, aspen, bagel, bales, banes, bangs. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-g-l-n-p-s" | |
+3 letters: speedballing. | |
+5 letters: pregnabilities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 73 70 61 6E 67 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . ... .--. .- -. --. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01110011 01110000 01100001 01101110 01100111 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e s p a n g l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0073 0070 0061 006E 0067 006C 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)367185826780737871 |
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