gild

gild is a 4-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. 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.

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

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold.
2. transitive verb. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
3. transitive verb. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie.
4. transitive verb. To make red with drinking.
5. noun. a formal association of people with similar interests

   "he joined a golf club"

   "they formed a small lunch society"

   Synonyms: club, guild, lodge, order, society

6. verb. decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold

   Synonyms: begild, engild

Synonyms

club, guild, lodge, order, society, begild, engild

Common word forms

gilds, gilded, gilden, gilder, gilding, gildable

Words from these letters

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