egress

egress is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure. Face value is 7 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.

6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure.
2. noun. The passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit.
3. intransitive verb. To go out; to depart; to leave.
4. noun. the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent

   Synonyms: egression, emergence

5. noun. the becoming visible

   "not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins"

   Synonyms: emergence, issue

6. noun. (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse

   Synonyms: emersion

7. verb. come out of

   "Water issued from the hole in the wall"

   "The words seemed to come out by themselves"

   Synonyms: emerge, issue

Synonyms

egression, emergence, issue, emersion, emerge

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in egress:

serges

Common word forms

egressed, egresses, egressing

Words from these letters

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