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TRESSED

Definition: TRESSED

TRESSED

Adjective

1. Formed into ringlets or braided; braided; curled.

2. Having tresses.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "TRESSED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

"TRESSED" is a common misspelling or typo for: dressed, stressed, trussed.


Expressions: TRESSED

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "TRESSED": ebony-tressed, golden-tressed, tousled-tressed.

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

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Modern Translation: TRESSED

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

Albanian

  

që ka gërshet, i thurur (inwrought, knitted, wattled), i gërshetuar (wreathed). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

със сплетена на плитки коса. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fürtös (ringleted, ringlety), felkötött (attached, girded), felcsavart, fürtös hajú. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

essedtray

   

Portuguese

  

trançado (wattle), entrançado (latticed, plait, tortile). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

заплетенный в косу, имеющий косы. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

s uvojcima. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

lüle lüle (curled), bukleli (curly), örgülü. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tết (new year). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: TRESSED

Derivations

Words ending with "TRESSED": buttressed, distressed, fortressed, overstressed, prestressed, restressed, stressed, unstressed, waitressed. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: TRESSED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: deserts, dessert.

Words within the letters "d-e-e-r-s-s-t"

-1 letter: desert, deters, esters, reests, resets, rested, seders, serest, steeds, steers, steres.

-2 letters: deers, deets, deter, drees, dress, drest, erses, ester, redes, reeds, reest, reset, rests, seder, seeds, seers, sered, seres, steed, steer, stere, terse, treed, trees, tress.

-3 letters: deer, dees, deet, dere, dree, erst, eses, rede, reds, reed, rees, rest, rete, rets, seed.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-r-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: asserted, desserts, diesters, dosseret, editress, oersteds, resisted, sistered, stressed.

 

+2 letters: bestrides, cursedest, deemsters, deforests, delusters, dempsters, desalters, deserters, destriers, detesters, dextroses, digesters, dissenter, disserted, dopesters, dosserets, dressiest, headrests, pederasts, persisted, redigests, residents, restudies, sederunts, shrewdest, siderites, speedster, steadiers, tendresse, tiredness, treadless, undersets.

 

+3 letters: adulteress, advertises, assertedly, asterisked, buttressed, defrosters, depressant, dermatoses, dermestids, desecrates, desertions, desolaters, destroyers, detersives, diestruses, directness, directress, disreputes, disrespect, dissenters, dissertate, distempers, distressed, distresses, dosimeters, editresses, extradoses, fortressed, hotpressed, missteered, outdressed, outdresses, outpressed, predigests, presidents, reasserted, reassorted, redbreasts, redeposits, reductases, restressed, rootedness, seductress, seedeaters, semidesert, servitudes, sidestream, sidestroke, slenderest, smartweeds, somerseted, speedsters, spideriest, stampeders, steelyards, stevedores, stewardess, streambeds, streamside, stridences, teargassed, tenderness, tendresses, threadless, trendiness, trespassed, unstressed, waitressed, watersheds, watersides, yesterdays.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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