dike

dike is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A ditch; a channel for water made by digging. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 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 9 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
2. noun. An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
3. noun. A wall of turf or stone.
4. noun. A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.
5. transitive verb. To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
6. transitive verb. To drain by a dike or ditch.
7. intransitive verb. To work as a ditcher; to dig.
8. noun. a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea

   Synonyms: dam, dyke

9. noun. (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine

   Synonyms: butch, dyke

10. verb. enclose with a dike

    "dike the land to protect it from water"

    Synonyms: dyke

Synonyms

dam, dyke, butch

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in dike:

keid

Common word forms

diked, diker, dikes, diking

Words from these letters

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