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EXSANGUINATE

/ɛkˈsæŋɡwɪneɪt/12 letters

Definition of EXSANGUINATE

verb

To drain (a living or dead body, or a body part) of blood.

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Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from New Latin exsanguinātus (“depleted of blood, exsanguinated; lacking blood, bloodless”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Exsanguinātus is a participial adjective formed on ex- (“out, from”) + sanguī̆s (sanguin-) (“blood”) + -ātus.

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Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (23,981)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

verb4 syllablescompound-ateex-

Same root, EXSANGUINATE · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
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Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

EXSANGUINATE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 158
Its one board, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
145
First board
13
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

arnoldtortoisePATRON

on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

EXSANGUINATE
12
Letters
6
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

EXSANGUINATE starts with E and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AAEEGINNSTUX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E, A and N appear more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start EXSANGUI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

EXSANGUINEEXSANGUINEDEXSANGUINATEDEXSANGUINATESEXSANGUINATOREXSANGUINATINGEXSANGUINATIONEXSANGUINATIONS

Could you have found EXSANGUINATE?

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