bush

bush is a 4-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest. 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.

4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.
2. noun. A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.
3. noun. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.
4. noun. A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
5. noun. The tail, or brush, of a fox.
6. intransitive verb. To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
7. transitive verb. To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.
8. transitive verb. To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.
9. noun. A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.
10. noun. A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
11. transitive verb. To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.
12. noun. hair growing in the pubic area
13. noun. dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes

    Synonyms: chaparral, scrub

14. noun. a large wilderness area
15. noun. vice president under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (born in 1924)
16. noun. United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974)
17. noun. 43rd President of the United States; son of George Herbert Walker Bush (born in 1946)

    Synonyms: dubya, dubyuh

18. noun. a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

    Synonyms: shrub

19. verb. provide with a bushing
20. adjective. not of the highest quality or sophistication

Synonyms

chaparral, scrub, dubya, dubyuh, shrub

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bush:

hubs

Common word forms

bushed, busher, bushes, bushful, bushing, bushless, bushment

Words from these letters

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