fleece

fleece is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time. 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.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.
2. noun. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
3. noun. The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
4. transitive verb. To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
5. transitive verb. To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.
6. transitive verb. To spread over as with wool.
7. noun. outer coat of especially sheep and yaks

   Synonyms: wool

8. noun. a soft bulky fabric with deep pile; used chiefly for clothing
9. noun. tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing

   Synonyms: sheepskin

10. noun. the wool of a sheep or similar animal
11. verb. shear the wool from

    "shear sheep"

    Synonyms: shear

12. verb. rip off; ask an unreasonable price

    Synonyms: gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge

Synonyms

wool, sheepskin, shear, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge

Common word forms

fleeced, fleecer, fleeces, fleecing, fleeceable, fleeceless

Words from these letters

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