Anagrams of: PRETAPED

• forced to turn and face attackers

• a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses

• an essay (especially one written as an assignment)

• a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements

• a medium for written communication

• a scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses

• a business firm that publishes newspapers

• the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher

• cover with paper

• cover with wallpaper

• in a condition for letting out liquid drawn out as by piercing or drawing a plug

• marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners

• a reproach for some lapse or misdeed

• a gentle blow

• the sound made by a gentle blow

• voluble conversation

• genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged

• the act of hitting vigorously

• strike sharply

• make light, repeated taps on a surface

• perform rap music

• talk volubly

• informal abbreviation of `representative'

• a fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs

• becoming gradually narrower

• prey on or hunt for

• be earlier in time; go back further

• come before

• establish something as being earlier relative to something else