Dictionary Entry
drape
drape is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc. Face value is 8 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.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.
- 2transitive verb
To rail at; to banter.
- 3intransitive verb
To make cloth.
- 4intransitive verb
To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
- 5noun
hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
- 6noun
a sterile covering arranged over a patient's body during a medical examination or during surgery in order to reduce the possibility of contamination
- 7noun
the manner in which fabric hangs or falls
"she adjusted the drape of her skirt"
- 8verb
arrange in a particular way
"drape a cloth"
- 9verb
place casually
"The cat draped herself on the sofa"
- 10verb
cover or dress loosely with cloth
"drape the statue with a sheet"
- 11verb
cover as if with clothing
"the mountain was clothed in tropical trees"
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