gravel
gravel is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand. Face value is 10 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.
Definitions
- noun. Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.
- noun. A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.
- transitive verb. To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.
- transitive verb. To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
- transitive verb. To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
- transitive verb. To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
- noun. rock fragments and pebbles
- verb. be a mystery or bewildering to
"This beats me!"
"Got me--I don't know the answer!"
- verb. cover with gravel
"We gravelled the driveway"
- verb. cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
"Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"
"It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"
Synonyms
amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex, annoy, bother, chafe, devil, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in gravel:
Common word forms
gravels, graveled, gravelly, graveling, gravelled, gravelous, gravelling
Words from these letters
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