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

1. transitive verb. To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.
2. transitive verb. To rail at; to banter.
3. intransitive verb. To make cloth.
4. intransitive verb. To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
5. noun. hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

   Synonyms: curtain, drapery, mantle, pall

6. noun. a sterile covering arranged over a patient's body during a medical examination or during surgery in order to reduce the possibility of contamination
7. noun. the manner in which fabric hangs or falls

   "she adjusted the drape of her skirt"

8. verb. arrange in a particular way

   "drape a cloth"

9. verb. place casually

   "The cat draped herself on the sofa"

10. verb. cover or dress loosely with cloth

    "drape the statue with a sheet"

11. verb. cover as if with clothing

    "the mountain was clothed in tropical trees"

    Synonyms: cloak, clothe, robe

Synonyms

curtain, drapery, mantle, pall, cloak, clothe, robe

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in drape:

padre, parde, pared, raped, repad

Common word forms

draped, draper, drapes, draping, drapeable

Words from these letters

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