Dictionary Entry
resort
resort is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Active power or movement; spring. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 6 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Active power or movement; spring.
- 2intransitive verb
To go; to repair; to betake one's self.
- 3intransitive verb
To fall back; to revert.
- 4intransitive verb
To have recourse; to apply; to one's self for help, relief, or advantage.
- 5verb
The act of going to, or making application; a betaking one's self; the act of visiting or seeking; recourse; as, a place of popular resort; -- often figuratively; as, to have resort to force.
- 6verb
A place to which one betakes himself habitually; a place of frequent assembly; a haunt.
- 7verb
That to which one resorts or looks for help; resource; refuge.
- 8noun
act of turning to for assistance
"have recourse to the courts"
"an appeal to his uncle was his last resort"
- 9noun
something or someone turned to for assistance or security
"his only recourse was the police"
"took refuge in lying"
- 10noun
a frequently visited place
- 11noun
a hotel located in a resort area
- 12verb
move, travel, or proceed toward some place
"He repaired to his cabin in the woods"
Synonyms
- 13verb
have recourse to
"The government resorted to rationing meat"
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