mask

mask is a 4-letter English word with 23 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection; as, a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 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 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 23 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection; as, a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask.
2. noun. That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
3. noun. A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade; hence, a revel; a frolic; a delusive show.
4. noun. A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
5. noun. A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron.
6. noun. In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
7. noun. A screen for a battery.
8. noun. The lower lip of the larva of a dragon fly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
9. transitive verb. To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor.
10. transitive verb. To disguise; to cover; to hide.
11. transitive verb. To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
12. transitive verb. To cover or keep in check; as, to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out.
13. intransitive verb. To take part as a masker in a masquerade.
14. intransitive verb. To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way.
15. noun. activity that tries to conceal something

    "no mask could conceal his ignorance"

    "they moved in under a mask of friendship"

16. noun. a covering to disguise or conceal the face
17. noun. a protective covering worn over the face
18. noun. a party of guests wearing costumes and masks

    Synonyms: masque, masquerade

19. verb. put a mask on or cover with a mask

    "Mask the children for Halloween"

20. verb. shield from light
21. verb. cover with a sauce

    "mask the meat"

22. verb. hide under a false appearance

    "He masked his disappointment"

    Synonyms: cloak, dissemble

23. verb. make unrecognizable

    "The herb masks the garlic taste"

    "We disguised our faces before robbing the bank"

    Synonyms: disguise

Synonyms

masque, masquerade, cloak, dissemble, disguise

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in mask:

kasm

Common word forms

masks, masked, masker, masking, maskable

Words from these letters

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