Dictionary Entry
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.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.
- 2noun
A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.
- 3transitive verb
To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.
- 4transitive verb
To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
- 5transitive verb
To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
- 6transitive verb
To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
- 7noun
rock fragments and pebbles
- 8verb
be a mystery or bewildering to
"This beats me!"
"Got me--I don't know the answer!"
- 9verb
cover with gravel
"We gravelled the driveway"
- 10verb
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"
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