grate

grate is a 5-letter English word with 17 senses as adjective, noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Serving to gratify; agreeable. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Serving to gratify; agreeable.
2. noun. A structure or frame containing parallel or crosed bars, with interstices; a kind of latticework, such as is used ia the windows of prisons and cloisters.
3. noun. A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
4. transitive verb. To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars; as, to grate a window.
5. transitive verb. To rub roughly or harshly, as one body against another, causing a harsh sound; as, to grate the teeth; to produce (a harsh sound) by rubbing.
6. transitive verb. To reduce to small particles by rubbing with anything rough or indented; as, to grate a nutmeg.
7. transitive verb. To fret; to irritate; to offend.
8. intransitive verb. To make a harsh sound by friction.
9. intransitive verb. To produce the effect of rubbing with a hard rough material; to cause wearing, tearing, or bruising. Hence; To produce exasperation, soreness, or grief; to offend by oppression or importunity.
10. noun. a frame of iron bars to hold a fire

    Synonyms: grating

11. noun. a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air

    Synonyms: grating

12. noun. a harsh rasping sound made by scraping something
13. verb. scratch repeatedly

    "The cat scraped at the armchair"

    Synonyms: scrape

14. verb. make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together

    "grate one's teeth in anger"

    Synonyms: grind

15. verb. reduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface

    "grate carrots and onions"

    "grate nutmeg"

16. verb. gnaw into; make resentful or angry

    "The injustice rankled her"

    "his resentment festered"

    Synonyms: fret, rankle

17. verb. furnish with a grate

    "a grated fireplace"

Synonyms

grating, scrape, grind, fret, rankle

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in grate:

gater, great, greta, retag, targe, terga

Common word forms

grated, grater, grates, grating, grateful, grateless

Words from these letters

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