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mew
mew is a 3-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb. Face value is 8 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.
3 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 12 senses
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- 1noun
A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.
- 2transitive verb
To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers.
- 3intransitive verb
To cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a new appearance.
- 4noun
A cage for hawks while mewing; a coop for fattening fowls; hence, any inclosure; a place of confinement or shelter; -- in the latter sense usually in the plural.
- 5noun
A stable or range of stables for horses; -- compound used in the plural, and so called from the royal stables in London, built on the site of the king's mews for hawks.
- 6transitive verb
To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure.
- 7intransitive verb
To cry as a cat.
- 8noun
The common cry of a cat.
- 9noun
the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America
- 10noun
the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this)
- 11verb
cry like a cat
"the cat meowed"
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- 12verb
utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls
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