buckle

buckle is a 6-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 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 14 · Words With Friends 18 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.
2. noun. A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
3. noun. A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
4. noun. A contorted expression, as of the face.
5. noun. To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to buckle a harness.
6. noun. To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.
7. noun. To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively.
8. noun. To join in marriage.
9. intransitive verb. To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to curl; to kink.
10. intransitive verb. To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.
11. intransitive verb. To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
12. intransitive verb. To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.
13. noun. fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has loose prong
14. noun. a shape distorted by twisting or folding

    Synonyms: warp

15. verb. bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat

    "The highway buckled during the heat wave"

    Synonyms: heave, warp

16. verb. fold or collapse

    "His knees buckled"

    Synonyms: crumple

17. verb. fasten with a buckle or buckles

    Synonyms: clasp

Synonyms

warp, heave, crumple, clasp

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in buckle:

elbuck, lubeck

Common word forms

buckled, buckler, buckles, buckling, buckleless

Words from these letters

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