Dictionary Entry
entail
entail is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: That which is entailed. 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.
6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
That which is entailed.
- 2noun
An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
- 3noun
The rule by which the descent is fixed.
- 4noun
Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
- 5noun
To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.
- 6noun
To appoint hereditary possessor.
- 7noun
To cut or carve in a ornamental way.
- 8noun
the act of entailing property; the creation of a fee tail from a fee simple
- 9noun
land received by fee tail
- 10verb
limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs
- 11verb
impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result
"What does this move entail?"
Synonyms
- 12verb
have as a logical consequence
"The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers"
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