withset

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
12
Letters
7

Definition of withset

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To set oneself against; oppose; resist.
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verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To set oneself against; oppose; resist.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete)To be set against.
    “R. of Brunne Their way he them withset.”
  3. (Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive)To set (a place) with an ambush.

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Etymology

From Middle English withsetten (“to resist, set against”), from Old English wiþsettan (“to resist; condemn”), equivalent to with- (“against”) + set.

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