gherao
/ɡɛˈɹaʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.04 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "They had done a gherao and trapped the manager in his office for a whole day."
- "This was an invitation to strike: according to one estimate, there were more than 1,200 gheraos in the first six months of the first UF-LF government."
- "They led us in a mob to the administrative office of the Patna University, blockaded the main entrance and besieged the vice chancellor's office in a gherao […]"
- "One day the city magistrate asked the army for help to curb a protest march by women Congress workers who had threatened to gherao the officials in the divisional office."
- "In reply, the cultivators, apparently now protesting under the banner of the BKU gheraoed the power station."
- "Further incensed by the findings of two Citizen's Inquiry Committees that he had set up to probe the earlier police firings in Gaya and Patna, JP now announced a programme that involved picketing the Assembly, gheraoing the residences of MLAs, […]"
Etymology
From Hindi घेराव (gherāv, “encirclement”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: घेराव