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rut
rut is a 3-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists. Face value is 3 in Scrabble and 4 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 3 · Words With Friends 4 · 11 senses
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- 1noun
Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.
- 2noun
Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote.
- 3intransitive verb
To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc.
- 4transitive verb
To cover in copulation.
- 5noun
A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively.
- 6transitive verb
To make a rut or ruts in; -- chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj.; as, a rutted road.
- 7noun
a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape
"they fell into a conversational rut"
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- 8noun
a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)
- 9noun
applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
- 10verb
hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove
"furrow soil"
- 11verb
be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals
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