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CONDESCEND
✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
ENABLE1 ✓
Classic
11
pts
Big
11
pts
Super Big
20
pts
CONDESCEND is a valid 10-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 20 in Super Big Boggle.
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verb
- intransitiveobsoleteTo come down or go down; to descend.
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figurativelyintransitiveTo come down from a superior position and do something; to deign; (with a negative connotation) to stoop.
- The boss condescended not to sack him after much persuasion from his coworkers.
- figurativelyintransitiveTo treat someone as though inferior; to talk down to someone; to patronize.
- figurativelyintransitiveChiefly followed by on or upon: to go into detail; to particularize, to specify.
- figurativelyintransitiveobsoleteTo agree to something; to accede, to assent, to consent; also, to reach an agreement.
- figurativelyintransitiveobsoleteTo give way or yield in a deferential manner; to be amenable or compliant.
- figurativelyintransitiveobsoleteTo graciously give; to vouchsafe.
- figurativelyintransitiveobsoleteTo reach a certain point; to settle on.
- figurativelyintransitiveobsoleteTo secretly make plans, usually to bring about a bad or illegal result; to conspire, to plot.
- nonstandardraretransitiveTo treat (someone) as though inferior; to talk down to (someone); to patronize.
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obsoletetransitiveOften preceded by the dummy pronoun it: to agree to (something); to consent.
- It was condescended by the warring parties that they should lay down their arms and seek peace.