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Slenderize

Definition: Slenderize

Slenderize

Verb

1. Make slender or appear to be slender; "slenderizing skirts".

2. Take off weight.

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


Synonyms: Slenderize

Synonyms: lose weight (v), melt off (v), reduce (v), slenderise (v), slim (v), slim down (v), thin (v). (additional references)
Antonym: gain (v). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Slenderize

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fuze slenderize

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Slenderize

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

Albanian

  

ngushtoj (constrict, cramp, narrow, straiten, tighten), holloj (cut, dilute, doctor, emaciate, point, thin). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏جعله نحيلا. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ставам по-слаб, правя по-слаб, изтънявам (fine, fine-draw, grow thin, taper, thin, thin away, wear away). (various references)

   

French

  

amincir (slim). (various references)

   

German

  

schlank machen (slim). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

λεπτύνω (attenuate, slim, thin). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"רזות (grow thin), לרזות (reduce, slim). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

karcsúsít (to attenuate, to slenderize, to slim). (various references)

   

Italian

  

dimagrire (grow thin, lose weight, make thin, reduce, slim). (various references)

   

Manx

  

thannaghey (attenuate, bed in; thinning, cracking up of oil; shoal of waters, cracking up; shoal of waters, dilute, dilution, emaciate, liquefy, rarefaction, rarefy, rarefying, reduce, reduction, shallow, slim, thin), shangaghey (emaciate, macerate, maceration, reduce, slenderization, slim, slimming, thinning, waste, waste as body), keyley (narrowing, thin), keylagh (attenuate, attenuation, thin, thinning). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enderizeslay

   

Portuguese

  

adelgaçar-se (taper), adelgaçar (sharpen, taper). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

slãbi (abate, attenuate, Bate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, diminish, drain, droop, dull, ease, emaciate, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, fade, fail, flag, go down, grow weak, impair, languish, let, loosen, lose flesh, lose weight, macerate, mine, peak and pine, pinch, pull down, reduce, relax, sap, sink, slack, slacken, slim, soften, subdue, subside, take the edge off, thin, undermine, weaken). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

худеть (lose flesh, slim down, slimmed, slims, thin). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

učiniti vitkim (slim), postati vitak. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

adelgazar (become thin, fall away, lose, lose flesh, lose in weight, lose weight, reduce, slim, slim down, thin). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

göra smärt, bli smärt. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

inceltmek (attenuate, diminish, fine away, fine down, reduce, refine, sharpen, subtilize, thin, thin down, thin of, thin out), incelmek (become slimer, fine away, fine down, fine off, get thinner, refine, slim, subtilize, taper, taper off, thin, thin down, thin of, thin out). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

робити струнким (slim), худнути (attenuate, emaciate, grow thin, lose weight, reduce, slim, thin, thin away). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Slenderize

Derivations

Words beginning with "slenderize": slenderized, slenderizes. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Slenderize

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-i-l-n-r-s-z"

-2 letters: needlers, nereides, redenies, redlines, reseized, selenide, sneezier.

-3 letters: deniers, enisled, ensiled, eserine, lenders, liernes, linseed, needers, needier, needler, needles, nereids, redline, relends, relined, relines, reseize, resiled, resined, resized, seedier, slender, sneered, sneezed, sneezer.

-4 letters: denier, denies, denser, desire, dienes, diesel, diners, dizens, ediles, eelier, eiders, elders, elides, enders, enisle, ensile, idlers, leered, lender.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-i-l-n-r-s-z"
 

+1 letter: slenderized, slenderizes.

 

+3 letters: decentralizes, demineralizes, denuclearizes, depersonalize.

 

+4 letters: demineralizers, depersonalized, depersonalizes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Slenderize


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

53 6C 65 6E 64 65 72 69 7A 65

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)

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

01010011 01101100 01100101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01101001 01111010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006C 0065 006E 0064 0065 0072 0069 007A 0065

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

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

53787180707184759271

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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