Anagrams of: APPARTEMENT

• a high bid that is intended to prevent the opposing players from bidding

• acquire for oneself before others can do so

• take the place of or have precedence over

• gain possession of by prior right or opportunity, especially so as to obtain the right to buy (land)

• make a preemptive bid in the game of bridge

• clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment

• appearing as such but not necessarily so

• treat with excessive indulgence

• a clerk who marks data on a chart

• spreading or spread throughout

• marked by eager desire

• modify the temperature of

• Preamplifier

• Preamplify