buoy
buoy is a 4-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 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
- noun. A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.
- transitive verb. To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.
- transitive verb. To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.
- transitive verb. To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.
- intransitive verb. To float; to rise like a buoy.
- noun. bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards
- verb. mark with a buoy
- verb. keep afloat
"The life vest buoyed him up"
- verb. float on the surface of water
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