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Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To write, print, carve, or engrave (words or letters) on or in a surface.
  • v. To mark or engrave (a surface) with words or letters.
  • v. To enter (a name) on a list or in a register.
  • v. To sign one's name or write a brief message in or on (a gift book or photograph, for example).
  • v. To dedicate to someone.
  • v. Mathematics To draw (one figure) within another figure so that every vertex of the enclosed figure touches the outer figure.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To write or cut words onto something, especially a hard surface; to engrave.
  • v. To draw a circle, sphere, etc. inside a polygon, polyhedron, etc. and tangent to all its sides.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint.
  • v. To mark with letters, characters, or words.
  • v. To assign or address to; to commend to by a short address; to dedicate informally.
  • v. To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp.
  • v. To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To write or engrave; mark, as letters or signs, by writing or engraving; specifically, to display in writing on something durable or conspicuous: as, to inscribe a name on a roll, tablet, or monument.
  • To write or engrave the name of, as on a list or tablet; enroll in writing: as, to be inscribed among the councilors.
  • To mark with characters or words.
  • To dedicate or commend (a book or other writing) by a short address less formal than a dedication.
  • To imprint deeply; impress: as, to inscribe something on the memory.
  • In geometry, to draw or delineate in or within, as chords or angles within a circle, or as a rectilinear figure within a curvilinear one.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. address, (a work of literature) in a style less formal than a dedication
  • v. write, engrave, or print as a lasting record
  • v. convert ordinary language into code
  • v. draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible
  • v. carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
  • v. mark with one's signature
  • v. register formally as a participant or member
  • Verb Form
    inscribed    inscribes    inscribing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    dedicate    record    enter    put down    encode    delineate    draw    trace    describe    line   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    impress    stamp    emblaze    superscribe    subscribe    indorse    letter    tablet    write    mark   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Scribe    ascribe    bribe    circumscribe    describe    gibe    imbibe    jibe    oversubscribe    prescribe