mash
mash is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A mesh. Face value is 9 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.
Definitions
- noun. A mesh.
- noun. A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. Specifically (Brewing), ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.
- noun. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
- noun. A mess; trouble.
- transitive verb. To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort.
- noun. mixture of ground animal feeds
- noun. a mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water; used in brewing
- verb. reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
"grind the spices in a mortar"
"mash the garlic"
- verb. talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
"The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"
"My husband never flirts with other women"
- verb. to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
"crush an aluminum can"
"squeeze a lemon"
Synonyms
bray, comminute, crunch, grind, butterfly, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, philander, romance, crush, squash, squeeze, squelch
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in mash:
Common word forms
mashal, mashed, masher, mashes, mashing
Words from these letters
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