ABSTORTED

  

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ABSTORTED

Definition: ABSTORTED

ABSTORTED

Adjective

1. Wrested away.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Abstorted \Ab*stort"ed\, adjective. [As if from abstort, from the Latin expression ab, abs tortus, past participle of torquere to twist.]. (references)


Rhyming with "ABSTORTED"

Words rhyming with "ABSTORTED" (pronounced 'Ab*stort"ed'): Able-minded, Aborted, Absent-minded, Adfected, Adusted, Affriended, Apiked, Arcaded, Aspected, Barded, Becomed, Bifronted, Bivaulted, Bladed, Bloody-minded, Bracted, Breaded, Brocaded, Brouded, Cisted, Clifted, Coadapted, Cockaded, Complected, Conceited, Confated, Congested, Contented, Contorted, Cysted, Debted, demented, Encysted, flighted, Forerecited, Forfered, Forted, Fronded, frosted, Fusted, Gaited, gated, hearted, high-minded, interrelated, Lered, Longheaded, long-winded, Maked, malcontented. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ABSTORTED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-o-r-s-t-t"

-1 letter: abettors, broadest, taborets.

-2 letters: abettor, aborted, batters, bettors, boasted, boaster, boaters, borated, borates, dabster, debtors, dotters, rebatos, roasted, rotated, rotates, sorbate, started, tabored, taboret, tetrads, toasted, toaster, torsade.

-3 letters: abodes, aborts, adobes, adores, adsorb, ardebs, bardes, barest, basted, baster, batted, batter, beards, bettas, bettor, boards, boarts, boated, boater, borate, breads, breast, broads, daters.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-o-r-s-t-t"
 

+3 letters: bootstrapped, teeterboards.

 

+4 letters: battlegrounds, flutterboards, subcontracted.

 

+5 letters: overabstracted.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ABSTORTED


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

41 42 53 54 4F 52 54 45 44

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)

.-    -...    ...    -    ---    .-.    -    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000001 01000010 01010011 01010100 01001111 01010010 01010100 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#66 &#83 &#84 &#79 &#82 &#84 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0042 0053 0054 004F 0052 0054 0045 0044

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

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

353653544952543938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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