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

1. transitive verb. To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
2. transitive verb. To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
3. transitive verb. To mark with tar, as sheep.
4. transitive verb. To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.
5. noun. a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together

   Synonyms: basting, tacking

6. verb. cover with liquid before cooking

   "baste a roast"

7. verb. sew together loosely, with large stitches

   "baste a hem"

   Synonyms: tack

8. verb. strike violently and repeatedly

   "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her"

   Synonyms: batter, clobber

Synonyms

basting, tacking, tack, batter, clobber

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in baste:

abets, bates, beast, beats, betas, estab, sebat, tabes

Common word forms

basted, baster, bastes, basting

Words from these letters

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