Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

therap

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.22 in modern English

Syllables: ther-ap
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To administer therapy.

Example Sentences

"But the real problems of life, the insoluble ones of death and pain, illness, and the irreversibility of time and of old age and the like are all insoluble and cannot be therapped away."
"[…] the difficult cases which should have gone where they could be therapped or whatever the psychoanalysts do, and don't get there."
"Or to put it another way, if I want therapy I'll get therapped by my comrades at home, and if I travel to a conference I want to confer."
"When we counsel, when we analyse, when we therap."

Etymology

Back-formation from therapist.

Inflected Forms

theraps (present, singular) therapping (participle, present) therapped (participle, past) therapped (past)

Questions

What does therap mean?: To administer therapy.
Where does therap come from?: Back-formation from therapist.

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