These are the meanings of the letters TAEB when you unscramble them.
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Abet (v. t.)
To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection.
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Abet (v. t.)
To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense.
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Abet (v. t.)
To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.
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Abet (n.)
Act of abetting; aid.
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Bate (n.)
Strife; contention.
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Bate (v. t.)
To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
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Bate (v. t.)
To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
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Bate (v. t.)
To leave out; to except.
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Bate (v. t.)
To remove.
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Bate (v. t.)
To deprive of.
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Bate (v. i.)
To remit or retrench a part; -- with of.
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Bate (v. i.)
To waste away.
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Bate (v. t.)
To attack; to bait.
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Bate ()
imp. of Bite.
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Bate (v. i.)
To flutter as a hawk; to bait.
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Bate (n.)
See 2d Bath.
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Bate (n.)
An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.
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Bate (v. t.)
To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.
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Beat (imp.)
of Beat
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Beat (p. p.)
of Beat
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Beat (v. t.)
To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.
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Beat (v. t.)
To punish by blows; to thrash.
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Beat (v. t.)
To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
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Beat (v. t.)
To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
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Beat (v. t.)
To tread, as a path.
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Beat (v. t.)
To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
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Beat (v. t.)
To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
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Beat (v. t.)
To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
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Beat (v. t.)
To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.
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Beat (v. i.)
To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
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Beat (v. i.)
To move with pulsation or throbbing.
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Beat (v. i.)
To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.
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Beat (v. i.)
To be in agitation or doubt.
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Beat (v. i.)
To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
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Beat (v. i.)
To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.
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Beat (v. i.)
To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
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Beat (v. i.)
To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
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Beat (n.)
A stroke; a blow.
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Beat (n.)
A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
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Beat (n.)
The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.
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Beat (n.)
A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
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Beat (n.)
A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8.
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Beat (v. i.)
A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.
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Beat (v. i.)
A place of habitual or frequent resort.
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Beat (v. i.)
A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.
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Beat (a.)
Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.