shrug

shrug is a 5-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To draw up or contract (the shoulders), especially by way of expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 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 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To draw up or contract (the shoulders), especially by way of expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like.
2. intransitive verb. To raise or draw up the shoulders, as in expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like.
3. noun. A drawing up of the shoulders, -- a motion usually expressing dislike, dread, or doubt.
4. noun. a gesture involving the shoulders
5. verb. raise one's shoulders to indicate indifference or resignation

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in shrug:

grush, gursh

Common word forms

shrugs, shrugged, shrugging

Words from these letters

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