Anagrams of: CONTRATE_

• discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation

• the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event

• a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)

• a passage selected from a larger work

• remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense

• get despite difficulties or obstacles

• deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

• extract by the process of distillation

• separate (a metal) from an ore

• obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action

• take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy

• calculate the root of a number

• an interest followed with exaggerated zeal

• state of violent mental agitation

• a fine crack in a glaze or other surface

• cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind

• develop a fine network of cracks

• be false to; be dishonest with

• act with artful deceit

• cheat or trick

• a lightweight cotton cloth with a smooth and slightly stiff finish; used for clothing and bandages

• A groove at the ends of the staves of a barrel into which the edge of the head is fitted.

• A cooper's tool for making these grooves.

• the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum

• the tissue forming the outer layer of an organ or structure in plant or animal

• the tissue that surrounds the lens nucleus

• a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)

• a person having great power