rag

rag is a 3-letter English word with 21 senses as transitive verb, noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 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 4 · Words With Friends 5 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
2. noun. A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment.
3. noun. Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress.
4. noun. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
5. noun. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.
6. noun. A ragged edge.
7. noun. A sail, or any piece of canvas.
8. intransitive verb. To become tattered.
9. transitive verb. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
10. transitive verb. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
11. noun. a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)
12. noun. a small piece of cloth or paper

    Synonyms: shred, tag, tatter

13. noun. newspaper with half-size pages

    Synonyms: sheet, tabloid

14. noun. music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)

    Synonyms: ragtime

15. noun. a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities
16. verb. break into lumps before sorting

    "rag ore"

17. verb. censure severely or angrily

    "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"

    "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"

    Synonyms: berate, chide, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, trounce

18. verb. harass with persistent criticism or carping

    "The children teased the new teacher"

    "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"

    Synonyms: bait, cod, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit

19. verb. play in ragtime

    "rag that old tune"

20. verb. cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations

    "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"

    "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"

    Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rile, vex

21. verb. treat cruelly

    "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"

    Synonyms: bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, torment

Synonyms

shred, tag, tatter, sheet, tabloid, ragtime, berate, chide, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, trounce, bait, cod, rally, razz, ride, tantalise

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rag:

agr, arg, gar, gra

Common word forms

rags, raged, rager, rages, ragged, ragger, raging, ragging

Words from these letters

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