astringe

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈstɹɪnd͡ʒ/

Verb

astringe (third-person singular simple present astringes, present participle astringing, simple past and past participle astringed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To constrict, to compress
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To become constricted or compressed
3. To bind by moral or legal obligation.
   • c. 1555, John Harpsfield, Divorce of Henry VIII:

     God's mind was to astringe and bind the Church perpetually to it.

Related terms

• astringent

Anagrams

• Tangiers, Tasering, Tigranes, angriest, angrites, angstier, ganister, gantries, granites, inert gas, ingrates, rangiest, reasting, stearing, tasering, tearings

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈstrin.d͡ʒe/
• Rhymes: -indʒe
• Hyphenation: a‧strìn‧ge

Verb

astringe

1. third-person singular present indicative of astringere

Anagrams

• Ginestra, gastrine, ginestra, graniste, regnasti, segnarti, stingerà, transige, transigé

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /asˈtrin.ɡe/, [äs̠ˈt̪rɪŋɡɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /asˈtrin.d͡ʒe/, [äsˈt̪rin̠ʲd͡ʒe]

Verb

astringe

1. second-person singular present active imperative of astringō

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /asˈtɾinxe/ [asˈt̪ɾĩŋ.xe]
• Rhymes: -inxe
• Syllabification: as‧trin‧ge

Verb

astringe

1. inflection of astringir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative