anagramise

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Verb[edit]

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

  1. Alternative form of anagramize
    • 1951, Roger Pilkington, Sons and daughters, page 132:
      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.
    • 1985, Aslib Information - Volume 13, page 285:
      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.
    • 2008, Sian Howells, The Complete Guide to Speaking in Public, page 18:
      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.