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bristle
bristle is a 7-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.
- 2noun
A stiff, sharp, roundish hair.
- 3transitive verb
To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up.
- 4transitive verb
To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.
- 5intransitive verb
To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
- 6intransitive verb
To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.
- 7intransitive verb
To show defiance or indignation.
- 8noun
a stiff hair
- 9noun
a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic
- 10verb
react in an offended or angry manner
"He bristled at her suggestion that he should teach her how to use the program"
- 11verb
rise up as in fear
"The dog's fur bristled"
"It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!"
Synonyms
- 12verb
have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles
"bristling leaves"
- 13verb
be in a state of movement or action
"The room abounded with screaming children"
"The garden bristled with toddlers"
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