Dictionary Entry
ricochet
ricochet is a 8-letter English word with 5 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water. Face value is 15 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.
8 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 16 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water.
- 2transitive verb
To operate upon by ricochet firing. See Ricochet.
- 3intransitive verb
To skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground. See Ricochet.
- 4noun
a glancing rebound
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- 5verb
spring back; spring away from an impact
"The rubber ball bounced"
"These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
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