Dictionary Entry
boot
boot is a 4-letter English word with 24 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 24 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.
- 2noun
That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.
- 3noun
Profit; gain; advantage; use.
- 4transitive verb
To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it?
- 5transitive verb
To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.
- 6noun
A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.
- 7noun
An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.
- 8noun
A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
- 9noun
A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
- 10noun
An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.
- 11noun
The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof.
- 12transitive verb
To put boots on, esp. for riding.
- 13transitive verb
To punish by kicking with a booted foot.
- 14intransitive verb
To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.
- 15noun
Booty; spoil.
- 16noun
the act of delivering a blow with the foot
"he gave the ball a powerful kick"
"the team's kicking was excellent"
- 17noun
a form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron and slowly crushed
- 18noun
footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg
- 19noun
British term for the luggage compartment in a car
- 20noun
an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg
- 21noun
protective casing for something that resembles a leg
- 22noun
the swift release of a store of affective force
"they got a great bang out of it"
"what a boot!"
- 23verb
cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes
"boot your computer"
Synonyms
- 24verb
kick; give a boot to
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