Dictionary Entry
seesaw
seesaw is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 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 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down.
- 2noun
A plank or board adjusted for this play.
- 3noun
A vibratory or reciprocating motion.
- 4noun
Same as Crossruff.
- 5intransitive verb
To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.
- 6transitive verb
To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.
- 7adjective
Moving up and down, or to and fro; having a reciprocating motion.
- 8noun
a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end
Synonyms
- 9verb
move unsteadily, with a rocking motion
- 10verb
move up and down as if on a seesaw
- 11verb
ride on a plank
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