bounce

bounce is a 6-letter English word with 23 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, adverb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 23 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.
2. intransitive verb. To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room.
3. intransitive verb. To boast; to talk big; to bluster.
4. transitive verb. To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump.
5. transitive verb. To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.
6. transitive verb. To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
7. transitive verb. To bully; to scold.
8. noun. A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.
9. noun. A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
10. noun. An explosion, or the noise of one.
11. noun. Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
12. noun. A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).
13. adverb. With a sudden leap; suddenly.
14. noun. a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards

    Synonyms: bound, leap, leaping, saltation, spring

15. noun. the quality of a substance that is able to rebound

    Synonyms: bounciness

16. noun. rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts)

    Synonyms: bouncing

17. verb. hit something so that it bounces

    "bounce a ball"

18. verb. eject from the premises

    "The ex-boxer's job is to bounce people who want to enter this private club"

19. verb. spring back; spring away from an impact

    "The rubber ball bounced"

    "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"

    Synonyms: bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring

20. verb. move up and down repeatedly

    Synonyms: jounce

21. verb. leap suddenly

    "He bounced to his feet"

22. verb. refuse to accept and send back

    "bounce a check"

23. verb. come back after being refused

    "the check bounced"

Synonyms

bound, leap, leaping, saltation, spring, bounciness, bouncing, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, jounce

Common word forms

bounced, bouncer, bounces, bouncing, bounceable

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for BOUNCE lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.