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Definitions of refer
v. t. - To carry or send back. ²
v. t. - Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, information, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar to an officer; to refer a bill to a committee; a court refers a matter of fact to a commissioner for investigation, or refers a question of law to a superior tribunal. ²
v. t. - To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation; as, he referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances. ²
v. i. - To have recourse; to apply; to appeal; to betake one's self; as, to refer to a dictionary. ²
v. i. - To have relation or reference; to relate; to point; as, the figure refers to a footnote. ²
v. i. - To carry the mind or thought; to direct attention; as, the preacher referred to the late election. ²
v. i. - To direct inquiry for information or a guarantee of any kind, as in respect to one's integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability, and the like; as, I referred to his employer for the truth of his story. ²

The word "refer" uses 5 letters: E E F R R.

Direct anagrams of refer:
  freer   frere

Words formed by adding one letter before or after refer (in bold), or to eefrr in any order:
a -   fearer   e -   reefer   i -   refire   l -   ferrel   p -   prefer   s -   freers   freres   refers   t -   ferret  

Shorter words found within refer:
ef   er   ere   err   fee   fer   fere   free   re   ree   reef   ref  

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