prostitute

prostitute is a 10-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb, adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.
2. transitive verb. To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute official powers.
3. adjective. Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous purposes.
4. noun. A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot.
5. noun. A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire.
6. noun. a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money

   Synonyms: bawd, cocotte, cyprian, harlot, tart, whore

7. verb. sell one's body; exchange sex for money

Synonyms

bawd, cocotte, cyprian, harlot, tart, whore

Common word forms

prostituted, prostitutes, prostitutely, prostituting

Words from these letters

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