shore

shore is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Shear. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 7 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. of Shear
2. imp. of Shear.
3. noun. A sewer.
4. noun. A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging.
5. transitive verb. To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building.
6. transitive verb. The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.
7. transitive verb. To set on shore.
8. noun. a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support

   Synonyms: shoring

9. noun. the land along the edge of a body of water
10. verb. support by placing against something solid or rigid

    "shore and buttress an old building"

    Synonyms: prop

11. verb. arrive on shore

    "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor"

    Synonyms: land

12. verb. serve as a shore to

    "The river was shored by trees"

Synonyms

shoring, prop, land

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in shore:

heros, hoers, horse, hoser, shero, shoer

Common word forms

shored, shorer, shores, shoring, shoreless

Words from these letters

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