Dictionary Entry
garnish
garnish is a 7-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.
- 2transitive verb
To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
- 3transitive verb
To furnish; to supply.
- 4transitive verb
To fit with fetters.
- 5transitive verb
To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee. See Garnishee. t.
- 6noun
Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated.
- 7noun
Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. See Garnish. t., 2.
- 8transitive verb
Fetters.
- 9transitive verb
A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer.
- 10noun
any decoration added as a trimming or adornment
- 11noun
something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration
- 12verb
decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
- 13verb
take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support
"His employer garnished his wages in order to pay his debt"
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