escalade

escalade is a 8-letter English word with 4 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart.
2. transitive verb. To mount and pass or enter by means of ladders; to scale; as, to escalate a wall.
3. noun. an act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification)
4. verb. climb up and over

   "They had to escalade canyons to reach their destination"

Common word forms

escaladed, escalader, escalades, escalading

Words from these letters

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