Dictionary Entry
baste
baste is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To beat with a stick; to cudgel. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
- 2transitive verb
To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
- 3transitive verb
To mark with tar, as sheep.
- 4transitive verb
To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.
- 5noun
a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together
- 6verb
cover with liquid before cooking
"baste a roast"
- 7verb
sew together loosely, with large stitches
"baste a hem"
Synonyms
- 8verb
strike violently and repeatedly
"She clobbered the man who tried to attack her"
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