Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dejecter

/dɪˈdʒɛktə(ɹ)/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: de-jecter
IPA: /dɪˈdʒɛktə(ɹ)/

18

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Something that casts down or diminishes.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"The Morall mans dejecters likewise three, / Wine, Woman, and the love of Vanitie."
"But I found the Errhina or Medicines that purge the Head by the Nostrils […] to be more foolish than these: Likewise solutives or Purgers by Stool, and Bloud-lettings, to be cruel ones; because the dejecters of strength."
"This was forty years before tea had been introduced in England, and water was looked upon as a “dejecter of the appetite,” when taken cool and by itself."

Etymology

From deject (“cast down”) + -er.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: deject

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /dɪˈdʒɛktə(ɹ)/

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

dejecters (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce dejecter?: The recorded pronunciation is /dɪˈdʒɛktə(ɹ)/.
What does dejecter mean?: Something that casts down or diminishes.
Where does dejecter come from?: From deject (“cast down”) + -er.

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