Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight.
- 2transitive verb
To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call.
- 3transitive verb
To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
- 4transitive verb
To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab
- 5transitive verb
To dress with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth.
- 6transitive verb
To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
- 7transitive verb
To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of cyrrying it.
- 8transitive verb
To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
- 9intransitive verb
To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
- 10noun
A blow.
- 11noun
A pool or puddle.
- 12noun
the new sounds added by dubbing
- 13verb
provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign language
- 14verb
give a nickname to
Synonyms
- 15verb
raise (someone) to knighthood
"The Beatles were knighted"
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