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coal
coal is a 4-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 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 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.
- 2noun
A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.
- 3transitive verb
To burn to charcoal; to char.
- 4transitive verb
To mark or delineate with charcoal.
- 5transitive verb
To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.
- 6intransitive verb
To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.
- 7noun
a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering
Synonyms
- 8noun
fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period
- 9verb
take in coal
"The big ship coaled"
- 10verb
supply with coal
- 11verb
burn to charcoal
"Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"
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