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5-letter words (8 found)

ABETS,BASTE,BATES,BEAST,BEATS,BESAT,BETAS,TABES,

4-letter words (23 found)

ABET,ATES,BAES,BASE,BAST,BATE,BATS,BEAT,BEST,BETA,BETS,EAST,EATS,ETAS,SABE,SATE,SEAT,SETA,STAB,TABS,TAES,TASE,TEAS,

3-letter words (22 found)

ABS,ATE,ATS,BAE,BAS,BAT,BES,BET,EAS,EAT,EST,ETA,SAB,SAE,SAT,SEA,SET,TAB,TAE,TAS,TEA,TES,

2-letter words (12 found)

AB,AE,AS,AT,BA,BE,EA,ES,ET,ST,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 66 words from baste according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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Definitions and meaning of baste

baste

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /beɪst/
  • Rhymes: -eɪst
  • Homophone: based

Etymology 1

Late Middle English, from Old French bastir (“build, construct, sew up (a garment)”).

Verb

baste (third-person singular simple present bastes, present participle basting, simple past and past participle basted)

  1. To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
Translations

Etymology 2

Middle English basten, of uncertain etymon, possibly from Old French basser (“moisten, soak”), from bacin (“basin”).

Verb

baste (third-person singular simple present bastes, present participle basting, simple past and past participle basted)

  1. To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
  2. (by extension) To coat over something.
  3. To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
Translations

Noun

baste (plural bastes)

  1. A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking.

Etymology 3

Perhaps from the cookery sense of baste or from some Scandinavian etymon. Compare Old Norse beysta (“to beat, thresh”) (whence Danish børste (“to beat up”)). Compare also Swedish basa (“to beat with a rod, to flog”) and Swedish bösta (“to thump”). Might be related to French bâton (“stick”) (formerly baston); English baton comes from bâton; see also French bastonnade (“the act of beating with a stick”).

Verb

baste (third-person singular simple present bastes, present participle basting, simple past and past participle basted)

  1. (archaic, slang) To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
    • July 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diaries
      One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters.
Translations
References
  • [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) “Baste”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Bates, Beast, Sebat, abets, bates, beast, beats, besat, betas, esbat, tabes

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

baste

  1. inflection of bassen:
    1. singular past indicative
    2. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive

Anagrams

  • batse, besta

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish basto.

Pronunciation

Noun

baste m (plural bastes)

  1. ace of clubs

Noun

baste f (plural bastes)

  1. basque (clothing)

Further reading

  • “baste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Verb

baste

  1. inflection of bastar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
  2. inflection of bastir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

baste

  1. Alternative form of bast (“bast”)

Etymology 2

Noun

baste

  1. Alternative form of bast (“illegitimacy”)

Northern Sami

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈpasːte/

Noun

baste

  1. spoon

Inflection

Derived terms

  • deadjabaste

Further reading

  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎[3], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Portuguese

Verb

baste

  1. inflection of bastar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
  2. inflection of bastir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaste/ [ˈbas.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -aste
  • Syllabification: bas‧te

Verb

baste

  1. inflection of bastar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
  2. inflection of bastir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org