lash

lash is a 4-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given. Face value is 7 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.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
2. noun. A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
3. noun. A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough; as, the culprit received thirty-nine lashes.
4. noun. A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
5. noun. A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
6. noun. In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
7. transitive verb. To strike with a lash ; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
8. transitive verb. To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash; as, a whale lashes the sea with his tail.
9. transitive verb. To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
10. transitive verb. To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity; as, to lash vice.
11. intransitive verb. To ply the whip; to strike; to utter censure or sarcastic language.
12. noun. To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten; as, to lash something to a spar; to lash a pack on a horse's back.
13. noun. a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object

    "the whip raised a red welt"

    Synonyms: whip, whiplash

14. noun. leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip

    Synonyms: thong

15. noun. any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids

    Synonyms: cilium, eyelash

16. verb. bind with a rope, chain, or cord

    "lash the horse"

17. verb. strike as if by whipping

    "The curtain whipped her face"

    Synonyms: whip

18. verb. beat severely with a whip or rod

    "The teacher often flogged the students"

    "The children were severely trounced"

    Synonyms: flog, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip

19. verb. lash or flick about sharply

    "The lion lashed its tail"

Synonyms

whip, whiplash, thong, cilium, eyelash, flog, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lash:

hals, lahs

Common word forms

lashed, lasher, lashes, lashing, lashless, lashness

Words from these letters

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