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Scalped vs Scaped - What's the difference?

scalped | scaped |

As verbs the difference between scalped and scaped

is that scalped is past tense of scalp while scaped is past tense of scape.

As an adjective scalped

is (in combination) Having some specific type of scalp.

scalped

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (in combination ) Having some specific type of scalp

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (scalp)

    • Anagrams

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    scaped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (scape)

    • Anagrams

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    scape

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany) a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root
  • the lowest part of an insect's antenna
  • (architecture) the shaft of a column
  • (architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.

    • Etymology 2

    Formed by aphesis from escape . (etystub)

    Verb

    (scap)
  • (archaic) to escape
  • *17th century , John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal :
  • *:No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
  • *:As I have seen in one autumnal face.
  • *:Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape,
  • *:This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape .

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) escape
  • * Shakespeare
    • I spake of most disastrous chances, Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.
  • (obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.
    • (Donne)
  • (obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
  • * Milton
    • Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.
  • (obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.
    • (Shakespeare)
    (Webster 1913)

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