Scandalise

  

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Scandalise

Definition: Scandalise

Scandalise

Verb

1. Strike with disgust or revulsion; "The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends".

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

Date "scandalise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1833. (references)

Synonyms: Scandalise

Synonyms: appal (v), appall (v), offend (v), outrage (v), scandalize (v), shock (v). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Scandalise

"Scandalise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Scandalise" is used about 6 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
Lexical Verb (infinitive)66.67%4175,879
Lexical Verb (base form)33.33%2245,945
                    Total100.00%6N/A

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

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Modern Translations: Scandalise

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

Greek 

  

σκανδαλολογώ. (various references)

   

Italian

  

scandalizzare (be scandalized, horrify, scandalize, shock). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

andalisescay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Scandalise

Derivations

Words beginning with "scandalise": scandalised, scandalises. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Scandalise

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-l-n-s-s"

-1 letter: canalised, canalises, nasalised.

-2 letters: acidness, alcaides, assailed, canalise, candelas, laciness, nasalise, sanicles, scalades, scandals, scandias.

-3 letters: acedias, aidless, alcades, alcaide, aliases, anlaces, anlases, ascends, calends, calesas, canaled, candela, candies, candles, caseins, classed, dalasis, decanal, declass, denials, discase, incased, incases, inlaced, inlaces, islands, naiades, salinas, salines, sandals, sanicle, scalade, scaleni, scandal, scandia, sendals, silanes, snailed.

-4 letters: acedia, aecial, aisled, aisles, alands, alcade, alcids, aliens, alined, alines, anises, anlace, ascend, asdics, asides, assail, calesa, canals, candle, canids, casein, cassia, clades, cleans, clines, daises, dalasi, dances, dassie, deasil, decals, denial, elains, elands, ideals, incase, inlace, island, ladens, ladies, lanais, lanced, lances, lassie, lianas, lianes, linacs, naiads, nailed, naleds, nasals, nasial, nicads, saices, sailed, sained, salads, salina, saline, sandal, sanies, sansei, scalds, scaled, scales, scenas, scends, sedans, sendal, sidles, silane, sliced, slices, slides, snails.

-5 letters: acids, acned, acnes, aecia, aides, ailed, aisle, aland, alane, alans, alcid, alecs, alias, alien, aline, anile, anils, anise, anlas, ansae, asdic, aside, assai, assed, cades, cadis, caids, cains, canal, caned, canes, canid, casas, cased, cases, cedis, ceils, cines, clade, clads, clans, class, clean, cline, daces, dales, dance, deals, deans, decal, deils, delis, dials, dices, dines, discs, elain, eland, elans, ideal, ideas, idles, ileac, isled, isles, laced, laces, laden, lades, laics, lanai, lance, lands, lanes, lased, lases, leads, leans, lends, lenis, liana, liane, liens, linac, lined, lines, nadas, naiad, nails, naled, nasal, nicad, nidal, nides, sades, sadis, saice, saids, sails, sains, salad, sales, salic, salsa, sands, saned, sanes, sasin, scads, scald, scale, scans, scena, scend, seals, sedan, sends, sensa, sials, sices, sides, sidle, silds, since, sines, sisal, slain, sleds, slice, slide, snail, sneds, snide.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-l-n-s-s"
 

+1 letter: radicalness, scandalised, scandalises, scandalizes.

 

+3 letters: anecdotalisms, anecdotalists, deescalations, disallowances, radicalnesses.

 

+4 letters: accidentalness, diabolicalness, dogmaticalness, ultradistances.

 

+5 letters: dictatorialness, educationalists, paradoxicalness, straitlacedness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Scandalise


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

53 63 61 6E 64 61 6C 69 73 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 01100011 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#97 &#110 &#100 &#97 &#108 &#105 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 0061 006E 0064 0061 006C 0069 0073 0065

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

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

53696780706778758571

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INDEX

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


  

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