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Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To tie or bind with a ligature.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To bind with a ligature or bandage.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To tie with a ligature; to bind around; to bandage.
  • v. To concatenate two strands of (nucleic acid, usually DNA), in an end-to-end fashion, using a ligase.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To bind with a ligature; tie.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. bind with a bandage or ligature
  • v. join letters in a ligature when writing
  • v. bind chemically
    • Verb Form
    ligated    ligates    ligating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bandage    join    bring together    bind   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bandage    bin   
     
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