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drat

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
5
Words With Friends
5
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/dɹæt/

Definition of drat

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To damn or curse.
    “Drat you and your evil schemes!”
    “Whereat Mr. Fussy Fumer, gravely displeased, hastens home and writes an anonymous letter to Mrs. Gamp, who joins him in dratting the 'imperent upstart,' and denouncing the incompetence of the police.”
    “"Drat that saw-dust, although I shouldn't forget it is the mill that feeds me and mine, but I get so wild when I think of the big fellows I have landed here in days gone by."”
    “And should you be one of those conventional persons who thinks of parasites as abnormal or perhaps goes so far as to drat the varmints, you may be surprised to discover, as I did, that parasites live both inside and outside most organisms in all the kingdoms, which makes parasitism thoroughly normal[…]”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To damn or curse.
    “Drat you and your evil schemes!”
    “Whereat Mr. Fussy Fumer, gravely displeased, hastens home and writes an anonymous letter to Mrs. Gamp, who joins him in dratting the 'imperent upstart,' and denouncing the incompetence of the police.”
    “"Drat that saw-dust, although I shouldn't forget it is the mill that feeds me and mine, but I get so wild when I think of the big fellows I have landed here in days gone by."”
    “And should you be one of those conventional persons who thinks of parasites as abnormal or perhaps goes so far as to drat the varmints, you may be surprised to discover, as I did, that parasites live both inside and outside most organisms in all the kingdoms, which makes parasitism thoroughly normal[…]”

intj

  1. Expressing anger, annoyance or frustration.
    “Drat! I forgot to post these letters.”

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Etymology

An aphetism of od-rat (“God rot”) as a minced oath.

Anagrams of drat

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