anagramizev.
/ˈanəɡrəmʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈænəɡrəˌmaɪz/ transitive. To rearrange the letters of (a word, phrase, or name) to form another word, phrase, or name; = anagram v. 1.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > alteration of letters in a word > form anagram [verb (transitive)]
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1636 W. Sampson Virtus post Funera Vivit 47 William Farrington Which Anagramizde by conversion even, (Farwell I am gon) from Earth to Heaven.
1747 Biographia Britannica I. 226/2 The author's name..is also anagramized in James Hasolle, i.e. Elias Ashmole.
1851 E. S. Wortley Trav. in U.S. II. viii. 142 One of their printers the other day unintentionally anagrammized the word, and printed it ‘Untied States’.
1995 D. Hofstadter et al. Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies 91 They find every possible way to anagrammize it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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v.1636- to go etc ways
- to go etc with a right foot
- to go even
- to go even or odd
- to go eyes out
- to go fairing
- to hang behind
- to hang by a thread
- to hang by geometry
- to hang by on a thread
- to hang by the eyelids
- to hang by the lug of
- to hang by the moonshine
- to hang by upon a thread
- to hang fire
- to hang five
- to hang five, ten
- to hang hold on by the eyelids
- to hang in
- to hang in effigy
- to hang in the wind
- to hang it on
- to hang it out
- to hang it up
- to hang long betwixt one's fingers