Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

throwing oneself on someone's mercy

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.37 in modern English

Syllables
throw-ing one-self on -some-one's mer-cy
IPA
49
Scrabble Score
30
Letters
6
Syllables
15
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of throw oneself on someone's mercy

Questions

What does throwing oneself on someone's mercy mean?
present participle and gerund of throw oneself on someone's mercy

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