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Revilement

Definition: Revilement

Revilement

Noun

1. A rude expression intended to offend or hurt; "when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse"; "they yelled insults at the visiting team".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "revilement" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)


Synonyms: Revilement

Synonyms: abuse (n), contumely (n), insult (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Revilement

"Revilement" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Revilement" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Revilement

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

Arabic 

  

‏مسبة (abuse, insult). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

herjaus (abuse, libel). (various references)

   

German

  

Verunglimpfung (calumny, denigration, disparagement, scurrility). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

גדוף (abuse, blasphemy, curse, insult, invective, obloquy, profanity, scorn, swearword, vilification, vituperation). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

漫罵 (derision). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

まんば (derision). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

evilementray

   

Turkish

  

yerin dibine sokma, küfür (a bad word, abuse, blasphemy, contumely, curse, cuss, cuss word, expletive, invective, invectives, oath, profanity, scurrility, strong language, swearing, swearword), kötüleme (decrial, denigration, detraction, disparagement, dispraise, obloquy, slander, speaking ill of, vilification), hakaret (affront, contempt, contumely, cuss word, defamation, epithet, hotfoot, indignity, insult, invective, opprobrium, outrage, slap, slap in the face, slight, slur, snub). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

lời xỉ vả (railing), lời mắng nhiếc (taunt, upbraiding), lời chửi rủa (malediction). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Revilement

Derivations

Words beginning with "revilement": revilements. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Revilement" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: revirement, revisement. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Revilement"

Words rhyming with "revilement" (pronounced 'Re*vile"ment'): Abasement, Abashment, Abatement, Abetment, Abjurement, Abodement, Aborsement, Abortment, Abridgment, Absentment, Abutment, Accordment, Accouchement, Accroachment, Accrument, Accusement, Acquirement, Acquitment, Adjournment, Adjudgment, Adjustment, Adorement, Adornment, Advancement, Advisement, Affeerment, Afforcement, Affordment, Affrayment, Affreightment, Affrightment, Aggroupment, Agistment, Agreement, Agroupment, Ailment, Alignment, Alinement, Allayment, Allegement, Allignment, Allotment, Allurement, Amassment, Amazement, Amendment, Amercement, Amusement, Annexment, Announcement. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Revilement

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-l-m-n-r-t-v"

-3 letters: element, emetine, eremite, leveret, livener, relieve, teenier, telemen, veinlet, vermeil.

-4 letters: eelier, eleven, elmier, emetin, entire, entree, envier, ermine, eterne, evener, eviler, invert, levier, lierne, liever, limner, linter, meeter, melter, merlin, metier, milter, minter, reemit, relent, releve, reline, relive, remeet, remelt, remint, retene, retile, retime, retine, revile, teemer, teener, triene, veiler, veiner.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-l-m-n-r-t-v"
 

+1 letter: revilements.

 

+4 letters: intervalometer, remuneratively.

 

+5 letters: governmentalize, intervalometers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Revilement


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

52 65 76 69 6C 65 6D 65 6E 74

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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