bray
bray is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.
- intransitive verb. To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass.
- intransitive verb. To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise.
- transitive verb. To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.
- noun. The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.
- noun. A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling.
- noun. the cry of an ass
- verb. laugh loudly and harshly
- verb. reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
"grind the spices in a mortar"
"mash the garlic"
- verb. braying characteristic of donkeys
Synonyms
comminute, crunch, grind, mash
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bray:
Common word forms
brays, brayed, brayer, braying
Words from these letters
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