Dictionary Entry
belly
belly is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 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 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.
- 2noun
The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly.
- 3noun
The womb.
- 4noun
The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship.
- 5noun
The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
- 6transitive verb
To cause to swell out; to fill.
- 7intransitive verb
To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge.
- 8noun
the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish
- 9noun
a protruding abdomen
Synonyms
- 10noun
the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis
- 11noun
the hollow inside of something
"in the belly of the ship"
- 12noun
a part that bulges deeply
"the belly of a sail"
- 13verb
swell out or bulge out
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