snag
snag is a 4-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance. Face value is 5 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.
Definitions
- noun. A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.
- noun. A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth.
- noun. A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
- noun. One of the secondary branches of an antler.
- transitive verb. To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
- transitive verb. To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree.
- noun. an unforeseen obstacle
- noun. an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
"there was a rip in his pants"
"she had snags in her stockings"
- noun. a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest
"a snag can provide food and a habitat for insects and birds"
- noun. a sharp protuberance
- verb. hew jaggedly
- verb. catch on a snag
"I snagged my stocking"
- verb. get by acting quickly and smartly
"snag a bargain"
Synonyms
hitch, rub, rent, rip, split, tear
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in snag:
Common word forms
snags, snagged, snagger, snagging
Words from these letters
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