extrance

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noun

exit

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounextrance (plural extrances)

plural extrances

  1. rareexit

    The wire is threaded on a long suitably curved needle, extrance is made through the vestibule of the mouth medially to the zygoma and out on the face at an appropriate point.

    1939, Texas Dental Journal, volume 57, page 47
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    Many mystery stories, about men murdered behind locked doors and windows, and murderers escaping without means of extrance and exit, have come true in the course of the extraordinary events at Cranston on the coast of Yorkshire, where Colonel Druce was found stabbed from behind by a dagger that has entirely disappeared from the scene, and apparently even from the neighbourhood.

    1926, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Oracle of the Dog”, in The Incredulity of Father Brown, London; Toronto; Melbourne; Sydney: Cassell and Company Ltd, page 72

Origin

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APA

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MLA

“extrance.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extrance. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “extrance,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extrance.

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