dub

dub is a 3-letter English word with 15 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight. 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.

3 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight.
2. transitive verb. To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call.
3. transitive verb. To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
4. transitive verb. To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab
5. transitive verb. To dress with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth.
6. transitive verb. To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
7. transitive verb. To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of cyrrying it.
8. transitive verb. To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
9. intransitive verb. To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
10. noun. A blow.
11. noun. A pool or puddle.
12. noun. the new sounds added by dubbing
13. verb. provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign language
14. verb. give a nickname to

    Synonyms: nickname

15. verb. raise (someone) to knighthood

    "The Beatles were knighted"

    Synonyms: knight

Synonyms

nickname, knight

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in dub:

bud

Common word forms

dubs, dubbed, dubber, dubbing

Words from these letters

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