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Definitions: Amerce |
AmerceVerb1. Punish with an arbitrary penalty. 2. Punish by a fine imposed arbitrarily by the discretion of the court. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "amerce" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
Note: Amerce \A*merce"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Amerced; present participle verb or noun Amercing.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Penalty | Verb: fine, mulct, amerce, sconce, confiscate; sequestrate, sequester; escheat; estreat, forfeit. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Amerce |
| English words defined with "amerce": Amerced, Amercing ♦ Merce. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "amerce": Merce. (references) |
| "Amerce" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Amerce" is used about 2 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "amerce"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ndëshkoj (castigate, chastise, condemn, correct, discipline, dish it out, give in, penalize, punish), gjobis (estreat, fine, mulct, penalize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | глобявам (assess, fine, mulct, surcharge), наказвам (castigate, chasten, correct, discipline, pay out, penalize, punish, smite, sort out), налагам глоба на (fine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τιμωρώ διά πρόστιμου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megbírságol (fine, mulct, to fine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | oolaghey, kerraghey (castigate, chasten, chastening, correct, correct as child, correction, penalize, punish, punishing, punishment, victimize, visitation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amerceay punir (bluff, castigate, chasten, chastise, disciplined, flog, inflict, pull about, punish, sentence, smite, visit), multar (fine, mule, sconce), castigar (beat, birch, castigate, chasten, cob, discipline, flog, inflict, penance, pull about, punish, smite, swinge, thrash, visit, whack, whip). (various references) amenda (amend, castigate, chalk, emend, fine, improve on, improve upon, mulct), sancţiona (approbate, approve, punish, ratify, sanctify, sanction, sign, trounce), pedepsi (avenge, castigate, chasten, correct, discipline, penalize, punish, scourge, serve out, trounce, wreak). (various references) штрафовать (estreat, mulct, penalize). (various references) kazniti (bring to book, castigate, chasten, chastise, mulct, penalize, punish, scourge), globiti (fine). (various references) para cezasına çarptırmak, para cezası vermek (assess, fine, mulct). (various references) dirwyo (fine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "amerce": amerced, amercement, amercements, amercer, amercers, amerces. (additional references) | |
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"Amerce" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aece, alerce, Almere, amare, Ameca, Amecea, ameree, amerge, americ, amerle, amerue, ammerce, amoce, Amresco, amure, anace, emerse, Emmence, immerce, maere, Merce, merche, Wamwere. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: raceme. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-m-r" | |
-1 letter: ameer, cream, creme, macer, ramee. | |
-2 letters: acme, acre, came, care, cere, cram, mace, marc, mare, mere, race, ream. | |
-3 letters: ace, arc, are, arm, cam, car, cee, ear, eme, era, ere, mac, mae, mar, ram, rec, ree, rem. | |
-4 letters: ae, am, ar, em, er, ma, me, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-m-r" | |
+1 letter: amerced, amercer, amerces, camerae, creamed, creamer, cremate, embrace, machree, menacer, racemed, racemes, reclame. | |
+2 letters: amercers, cambered, cameleer, camporee, cashmere, casimere, creamers, creamery, creamier, cremated, cremates, crewmate, demarche, embraced, embracer, embraces, icemaker, macerate, machrees, mackerel, marchese, medicare, menacers, menarche, overcame, racemate, racemize, racemose, rearmice, recamier, reclames, screamed, screamer. | |
+3 letters: archenemy, becharmed, cameleers, cameramen, camporees, careerism, cashmeres, casimeres, cassimere, chambered, chamfered, charmeuse, clambered, clamberer, creamiest, creamware, crewmates, decameter, declaimer, demarcate, demarches, embraceor, embracers, embracery, embracive, exclaimer, forcemeat, geomancer, icemakers, imprecate, latecomer, macerated, macerates, mackerels, macromere, marcelled, medicares, menarches, mercenary, mercurate, metameric, miscreate, octameter, pacemaker, racemates, racemized, racemizes, recamiers, reclaimed, remanence, rematched, rematches, sarcomere, scampered, screamers, smearcase, smiercase. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6D 65 72 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -- . .-. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101101 01100101 01110010 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A m e r c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006D 0065 0072 0063 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357971846971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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