Dictionary Entry
gutter
gutter is a 6-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 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 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.
- 2noun
A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water.
- 3noun
Any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
- 4transitive verb
To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
- 5transitive verb
To supply with a gutter or gutters.
- 6intransitive verb
To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.
- 7noun
a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
Synonyms
- 8noun
a tool for gutting fish
- 9noun
a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)
- 10noun
misfortune resulting in lost effort or money
"his career was in the gutter"
"all that work went down the sewer"
- 11verb
provide with gutters
"gutter the buildings"
- 12verb
wear or cut gutters into
"The heavy rain guttered the soil"
- 13verb
flow in small streams
"Tears guttered down her face"
- 14verb
burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker
"The cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground"
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