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EMPIERCE

Definition: EMPIERCE

EMPIERCE

Transitive verb

1. To pierce; to impierce.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "EMPIERCE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Note: Empierce \Em*pierce"\, transitive verb. [Prefix em- pierce. Compare to Impierce.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: EMPIERCE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Insertion

Obtrude; thrust in, stick in, ram in, stuff in, tuck in, press, in, drive in, pop in, whip in, drop in, put in; impact; empierce; (make a hole).

Opening

Perforate, pierce, empierce, tap, bore, drill; mine; (scoop out); tunnel; transpierce, transfix; enfilade, impale, spike, spear, gore, spit, stab, pink, puncture, lance, stick, prick, riddle, punch; stave in.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: EMPIERCE

Etymologies containing "EMPIERCE": EnpierceImpierce. (references)

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Anagrams: EMPIERCE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-i-m-p-r"

-1 letter: creepie, epimere, preemie.

-2 letters: empire, epimer, peerie, piecer, pierce, premie, recipe.

-3 letters: creep, creme, crepe, crime, crimp, cripe, eerie, emcee, emeer, piece, price, prime.

-4 letters: cepe, cere, cire, emic, emir, epee, epic, mere, mice, mire, peer, peri, perm, pice, pier, pree, prim, rice, rime, ripe.

-5 letters: cee, cep, eme, ere, ice, imp, ire, mir, pec, pee, per, pic, pie, rec, ree, rei, rem, rep, rim, rip.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-i-m-p-r"
 

+3 letters: masterpiece, misperceive, preeminence.

 

+4 letters: decipherment, encipherment, hyperendemic, imperceptive, imperfective, impermanence, impertinence, intemperance, masterpieces, misperceived, misperceives, omnipresence, permanencies, preeminences.

 

+5 letters: comprehensive, decipherments, encipherments, imperceivable, imperceptible, impercipience, imperfectives, imperfectness, impermanences, impertinences, impreciseness, intemperances, interepidemic, nephelometric, nephrectomies, nephrectomize, omnipresences, supereminence.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EMPIERCE


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

45 4D 50 49 45 52 43 45

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)

01000101 01001101 01010000 01001001 01000101 01010010 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#77 &#80 &#73 &#69 &#82 &#67 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004D 0050 0049 0045 0052 0043 0045

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

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

3947504339523739

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INDEX

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


  

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