These are the meanings of the letters NECDEXET when you unscramble them.
- Decent (a.)
Comely; shapely; well-formed.
- Decent (a.)
Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest.
- Decent (a.)
Moderate, but competent; sufficient; hence, respectable; fairly good; reasonably comfortable or satisfying; as, a decent fortune; a decent person.
- Decent (a.)
Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language.
- Exceed (v. i.)
To be more or greater; to be paramount.
- Exceed (v. i.)
To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure.
- Exceed (v. t.)
To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc.; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours.
- Extend (v. t.)
To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply; as, to extend sympathy to the suffering.
- Extend (v. t.)
To enlarge, as a surface or volume; to expand; to spread; to amplify; as, to extend metal plates by hammering or rolling them.
- Extend (v. t.)
To enlarge; to widen; to carry out further; as, to extend the capacities, the sphere of usefulness, or commerce; to extend power or influence; to continue, as time; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to extend the time of payment or a season of trail.
- Extend (v. t.)
To hold out or reach forth, as the arm or hand.
- Extend (v. t.)
To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions; as, to extend liquors.
- Extend (v. t.)
To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.
- Extend (v. t.)
To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.