anagramize

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Etymology

From anagram +‎ -ize.[1]

Verb

anagramize (third-person singular simple present anagramizes, present participle anagramizing, simple past and past participle anagramized)

  1. (American and Oxford British spelling) To make an anagram from or to transform into as an anagram.
    Synonym: anagrammatise
    • 1981, Osmond Beckwith, Vernon: An Anecdotal Novel, page 7:
      ...and the smell of Juicy Fruit chewing gum (Juicy Fruit almost anagramizes into Fruechy) — at any rate, one of these brothers, I couldn't tell them apart at the time, is standing behind the counter;
    • 1990, Robert Hendrickson, British literary anecdotes, page 80:
      She only renounced such claims when a judge anagramized "Dame Eleanor Davies" into "Never so mad a ladie."
    • 2000, Rain Taxi - Volumes 5-7, page 19:
      He might search and replace certain words, dissolve the text down to key phrases, anagramize each line, or string verbal fragments into a story.
    • 2014, Paul Di Filippo, Harsh Oases: Stories:
      ou might notice Bruce's surname anagramized into that of the protagonist.

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References

  1. ^ anagramize, v.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.