anagramise

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verb

Non-Oxford British spelling of anagramize.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

verbanagramise (third-person singular simple present anagramises, present participle anagramising, simple past and past participle anagramised)

present singular third person anagramises · participle present anagramising · participle past anagramised · past anagramised

  1. Non-Oxford British spelling of anagramize.

    There are a couple of ways that you can create them:- The first, the hardest, is to toy with the word/phrase/name you wish to anagramise with nothing more than a piece of paper, a pen and your brain.

    2008, Sian Howells, The Complete Guide to Speaking in Public, page 18
    2 more examples

    This process of mutation is the sudden jump from HOSE to SHOE, from one chemical anagram to another; in some cases there may be several alleles at a single locus — several different ways in which the material can be anagramised and arranged.

    1951, Roger Pilkington, Sons and daughters, page 132

    Faced with the challenge of anagramising all or part of 'Alan Armstrong and Associates Ltd", GLC staff members Judith Barton, Annabel Davies and Carole Hills came up with - Alarm on stands as GLC dies.

    1985, Aslib Information - Volume 13, page 285

Origin

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