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.
Definitions
- noun. Active power or movement; spring.
- intransitive verb. To go; to repair; to betake one's self.
- intransitive verb. To fall back; to revert.
- intransitive verb. To have recourse; to apply; to one's self for help, relief, or advantage.
- verb. 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.
- verb. A place to which one betakes himself habitually; a place of frequent assembly; a haunt.
- verb. That to which one resorts or looks for help; resource; refuge.
- noun. act of turning to for assistance
"have recourse to the courts"
"an appeal to his uncle was his last resort"
- noun. something or someone turned to for assistance or security
"his only recourse was the police"
"took refuge in lying"
- noun. a frequently visited place
- noun. a hotel located in a resort area
- verb. move, travel, or proceed toward some place
"He repaired to his cabin in the woods"
- verb. have recourse to
"The government resorted to rationing meat"
Synonyms
recourse, refuge, hangout, haunt, repair, recur
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in resort:
retros, roster, sorter, storer
Common word forms
resorts, resorted, resorter, resorting
Words from these letters
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