Definitions for syncopes

syncopes syn·co·pe

Spelling: [sing-kuh-pee, sin-]
IPA: /ˈsɪŋ kəˌpi, ˈsɪn-/

Syncopes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 223 anagrams from letters in syncopes (cenopssy).

Definitions for syncopes

noun

  1. Grammar. the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er.
  2. Pathology. brief loss of consciousness associated with transient cerebral anemia, as in heart block, sudden lowering of the blood pressure, etc.; fainting.
  3. Grammar. the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er.
  4. Pathology. brief loss of consciousness associated with transient cerebral anemia, as in heart block, sudden lowering of the blood pressure, etc.; fainting.

Origin of syncopes

1350-1400; Middle English Late Latin syncopē Greek synkopḗ a cutting short, equivalent to syn- syn- + kop- (stem of kóptein to cut) + -ē feminine noun suffix

Examples for syncopes

If the girl had fainted it was a pity, but what influence had he over her syncope?

Verbs which suffer a syncope in the Infinitive, suffer a like syncope in the Pret.

It is therefore not a Narcotic; but, like other Sedatives, it kills by syncope.

At last, however, the hæmorrhage stopped, under the state of syncope.

In swoons and syncope, the soul no longer performs her ordinary functions.

He died in a sort of syncope, seven hours after swallowing the tobacco.

His breath fails him, and he seems relapsing into the syncope from which he has been aroused.

And as he went out of the gate he told Dad it was a syncope—I think.

They were bled to syncope, which then meant usually to 32 ounces.

I must have lain several hours, partly in syncope, and partly asleep.

They were bled to syncope, which then meant usually to 32 ounces.

And as he went out of the gate he told Dad it was a syncope—I think.

I must have lain several hours, partly in syncope, and partly asleep.

In swoons and syncope, the soul no longer performs her ordinary functions.

At last, however, the hæmorrhage stopped, under the state of syncope.

If the girl had fainted it was a pity, but what influence had he over her syncope?

His breath fails him, and he seems relapsing into the syncope from which he has been aroused.

Verbs which suffer a syncope in the Infinitive, suffer a like syncope in the Pret.

It is therefore not a Narcotic; but, like other Sedatives, it kills by syncope.

He died in a sort of syncope, seven hours after swallowing the tobacco.

Word Value for syncopes
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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