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quail

quail is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 11 senses

Definitions

  1. intransitive verb. To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade.
  2. intransitive verb. To become quelled; to become cast down; to sink under trial or apprehension of danger; to lose the spirit and power of resistance; to lose heart; to give way; to shrink; to cower.
  3. transitive verb. To cause to fail in spirit or power; to quell; to crush; to subdue.
  4. intransitive verb. To curdle; to coagulate, as milk.
  5. noun. Any gallinaceous bird belonging to Coturnix and several allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India, the stubble quail (C. pectoralis), and the Australian swamp quail (Synoicus australis).
  6. noun. Any one of several American partridges belonging to Colinus, Callipepla, and allied genera, especially the bobwhite (called Virginia quail, and Maryland quail), and the California quail (Calipepla Californica).
  7. noun. Any one of numerous species of Turnix and allied genera, native of the Old World, as the Australian painted quail (Turnix varius). See Turnix.
  8. noun. A prostitute; -- so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.
  9. noun. small gallinaceous game birds
  10. noun. flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised
  11. verb. draw back, as with fear or pain

    "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"

    Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince

Synonyms

cringe, flinch, funk, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in quail:

quila

Common word forms

quails, quailed, quailing

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